I shared with a few of my friends earlier this week that I was brainstorming a list of why I don’t like Christians. That may sound odd to you coming from a pastor. After all, I’m in the help-people-become-Christians business.

Honestly, though, with some exceptions including the friends I get to work with on a daily basis, I typically try to stay away from Christians. They aren’t much fun to be around. Among other things, they kind of make it difficult for me to explain why I find joy through my faith.

I may share  my list of reasons that I don’t like Christians sometime in the future. In the mean time, though, one of my buddies found this article from The Onion. It’s filled with sarcasm which I know some Christians in the audience won’t like. Since I happen to appreciate sarcasm as a valid form of humor within the bounds of my faith, I know I’ve already broken several rules that will certainly doom me to the hot place.

That aside, Janet wrote:

“I’m here to tell you there are lots of Christians who aren’t anything like the preconceived notions you may have. We’re not all into ‘turning the other cheek.’ We don’t spend our days committing random acts of kindness for no credit. And although we believe that the moral precepts in the Book of Leviticus are the infallible word of God, it doesn’t mean we’re all obsessed with extremist notions like ‘righteousness’ and ‘justice.’

“My faith in the Lord is about the pure, simple values: raising children right, saying grace at the table, strictly forbidding those who are Methodists or Presbyterians from receiving communion because their beliefs are heresies, and curing homosexuals. That’s all. Just the core beliefs. You won’t see me going on some frothy-mouthed tirade about being a comfort to the downtrodden.”

Check out the rest of Janet’s article. I promise you it’ll make you feel uncomfortable. Remember it’s only one person’s perspective of Christians. I wonder, though, how many perceive us as Janet does. My guess is quite a few.

I hate to admit, but I’m a Christian and I’m not sure I like Christians.