I was talking to a friend yesterday about their experiences with and in church.  We were discussing how difficult it is to have dissenting viewpoints and open discussions without being dismissed outright and judged or boxed in as someone to be converted.

He told me that he was recently in such a discussion with a fellow member of his church.  As the conversation progressed and the opinions began to diverge, the conversation came to an abrupt end.  When he tried to reengage, he was told that he was barely even a marginal Christian and therefore his opinion didn’t really count.

Now I wasn’t there and I’m interpreting what I heard and probably putting words into peoples mouths.  For that I apologize from the bottom of my empty, souless, godless and marginal (at best) heart.  But come on.  This is so typical of my experience with evangelicals.  You are often either a godless sinner in need of conversion or a backsliding underachiever on the prayer chain.

Something is wrong with the social network.  Judge not.  I’m not saying.  I’m just saying.