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Author Anne Rice has caused quite a controversy by stating on Facebook that she has “quit being a Christian”:

For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to “belong” to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else. …

As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

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Be on the lookout for members of the Squirrel Liberation Front disguised as common household items!

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Previously:
All hail the solar-powered squirrel god
Squirrel Uprising: The latest updates
Squirrel Uprising: Rise of the black ‘super squirrel’

Last week I wrote about my, um, “difficult” neighbors, the ones who hang out in their driveway at night getting drunk, spewing obscenities, and bringing down the rest of the neighborhood’s property values. And I also mentioned how poorly I had handled myself around them.

The good news — if you want to call it that — is that I’m not the first Christian to make a complete fool out of myself. And really, compared to people like Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps, my overreaction was extremely minor. Nevertheless, it wasn’t right, and as I said, I don’t want to live that way anymore.

Timothy, a young pastor in first-century Ephesus, ran into a similar situation. Even though the Christian church there had been growing, some within the church had veered away from the Gospel and had started teaching things that weren’t in line with Scripture. It would’ve been easy for Timothy to go off on them, to fight fire with fire, and in all likelihood he had every right to do so. But Paul had different ideas.

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Sunday morning our youth pastor preached in “big church” on the parable of the Good Samaritan, about how we as Christians should be pouring out Christ’s love to the people around us, to a world that is lost and broken and desperate. I sat and listened intently, agreeing with everything he said and telling myself I would be the kind of neighbor that Jesus described.

And then I went straight home and failed miserably.

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