Lately, I have wished that Christianity was an irrelevant, outdated pile of nonsense. I have secretly wished it really was a harmless escape from reality that didn’t impact my daily life or the world around me. I have wished it really was a placid fantasy-filled, pie-in-the sky myth that didn’t affect anyone or anything. Article content

Sadly, that’s not the case. If it was that innocuous, I wouldn’t have a pit in my stomach or cringe opening the newspaper every morning. Article content

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Recently, Christianity has been debated in coffee shops, on television news, in social media and the front pages of newspapers. Most often the images discussed are a distortion of the Biblical truth.

Why? Because it has been co-opted by a fringe political right and

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