Reply #8: The real issue raised by his editorial [View All]

[Ian David]

More important than the "Was Jesus Homeless" question is why his readers were more concerned about his ideas on Jesus, than about the 8,000 homeless in their own state that the article was REALLY about. And why fundie christians see themselves as persecuted in America.
Nick Coleman: The gospel truth about some readers

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Nick Coleman, Star Tribune
December 17, 2004 NICK1217

Many people say Christians are under siege this Christmas from godless types who want to give us a black eye. I don't buy it for one simple reason: No one knows how to give us Christians a bigger black eye than the people who call themselves Christians.

This week, a number of my fellow Christians took time from worship to criticize a column I wrote about the homeless. They didn't write to tell me about their concern for the 8,000 homeless in Minnesota or the fact that half of them are women and kids or that 100 of them died this year.

No, they wrote to say that even though we will always have the poor with us, as Jesus said, that doesn't mean those poor buggers shouldn't get out of the way of our SUVs.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/357/5141957.html