What is real Christianity?

This Is What Actual Christianity Is Supposed to Sound Like is frustrating. It aims to clarify who true Christians are without really engaging with the reason they have to even try to make that claim.

There is no amount of Tim Alberta reporting or free coverage of Michael Tomasky’s mom’s pastor Michael Delk that will stop me from breathing a sigh of relief when the world is free from the Abrahamic religions and their offshoots (I’m including Mormons, Christian Scientists, seventh day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witness, etc. in this tradition). Or at least free from their adherents desire to purge the unbelievers.

Some Christians find comfort or grace from faith in a higher power. Some Christians serve their community in amazing ways. But we’re all one moment away from them just as easily poisoning the world if they meet the wrong charismatic (in the persuasive sense not necessarily religious sense) asshole. Christianity is built on Robert Jeffress not Michael Delk.

Their beliefs are built on sand.

The words in this article would have been better spent sharing something from Thich Nhat Hanh or any number of other non-Christian leaders that speak to practice over dogma. Or if you just can’t help yourself Richard Rohr.

Pastor Delk would find a more willing audience by divorcing his thoughtful message from any idea it’s rooted in some “true” Christianity.