If you truly want to reach out to non-Christians like me, I am more than willing to say that you don’t have to pretty up the message or change your beliefs to suit me so that I’ll join in. But you sound like Bush: “You’re either with us or against us!” You are making Christianity adversarial and warlike by declaring that those who don’t believe what you preach can just get lost, kicked out in the “housekeeping.” And as much as you want to believe otherwise, Christianity is not a war. If it were, then Christ would be the Prince of War, not the Prince of Peace.

You can preach a clear, unadulterated, and undecorated message with kindness. Frankly, you’re not doing that. You aren’t inviting people to Christ. You’re demanding that they conform. You aren’t teaching. You’re lecturing.

Thank you for reinforcing my decision to stay as far away from Christianity as I can get. And if I am condemned to the hell your God so lovingly created, then I would prefer to spend an eternity there than 5 minutes in any religion represented by sanctimonious, self-serving people like some of the ones I’ve read here. And don’t bother to tell me how happy it makes you to think of me in hell. It’s already abundantly clear, Christian.

Us old guys know our classic CCM from the 1970s, don’t we?

I don’t know if I’m violating a copyright by my scan of my old LP of Keith Green’s No Compromise (the best CCM album of all time, IMHO), but I’ve long wanted to showcase Joe Zucker’s fabulous graphic on my blog since that image is my favorite album cover art (Christian or otherwise) of all time. Makes a great statement, too.

That’s one thing I miss in LPs; the format made for large graphics that let designers and artists really show their stuff. A four inch square CD cover just doesn’t cut it!