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If you're like me, you've probably experienced some alienation the last few years, culminating in how people are responding to this pandemic. I honestly feel like I have almost nothing in common with the discernment of some of my fellow Christians. Hard not to feel hopeless. 1/
I've been asking myself many questions, such as "Is Christianity declining or was much of it even ever Christianity?" I sometimes wonder if I ever really knew some of my Christian friends or if we ever really believed some of the same foundational truths. 2/
I've somehow become a radical in the last few years, although I haven't changed any of my most sincere convictions. It just feels like the world changed around me. It's profoundly alienating to see people I love drift towards extremism I cannot logically comprehend. 3/
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to begin to talk with my friends who seemed to embrace madness. I question how God even speaks to people, when they can be so full of the Bible yet so....so seemingly lost in polarizing, partisan conspiratorial absurdity. 4/
I'd like to be stronger, but I'm not. I'm undone, confused, sad, and disheartened. I'm also stuck, unable to know how to even maintain the bond of peace with people who rejoice in the words and actions of polarizing, angry, bullying people. 5/
It feels like I'm slowly bleeding from within. You cannot see it or know it from my outward looks and actions, but inwardly something has cut my soul. 6/
I truly know that I will be ok and that nothing can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Nonetheless, I just need to let others know that I am profoundly disillusioned with people and communities I thought I once knew. 7/
Ultimately, I pledge my life to reconciling, peacemaking pursuits. I promise to try to live a better witness. I know there are others like me. Let's remember we are not alone, that God has grafted us into his heavenly community and the gates of hell will not prevail. peace. 8/8
