… The usual plaudits were exchanged in the Facebook echo chamber, but I felt queazy. My friend is a follower of Jesus. I know him well, and I know he loves God. But this?
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… I was thinking of how the word Christian was initially used as an insult, and how we resurrect that insult when we become mascots and caricatures; when we become a culture of blue fur, horns, and large snouts, because that is the uniform you must wear to debate religion on Facebook. The problem however is that mascots don’t know the team’s playbook, nor are they in the real game—they don’t have the skills.
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