I’ve worked on political campaigns. I have sat across the table from, or even on the same side of the table as, men who loathed everything for which I stand, and yet we were still able to talk. I’ve been to weddings where I was the only person to the Right of George Bush (or maybe even Bill Clinton). I’ve sat at a table with Marxist ‘community organizers’, civil rights attorneys, and Democrat Party operatives, and yet we were still able to talk. I’ve been in classrooms, lectures halls, and bars with people so far Left they’d give Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin a run for their money, and yet we were still able to talk. Talking is, of course, not always a solution, but it is certainly a sort of bare minimum in terms of civility or comity. I have found supposed Christians to be far worse than even some moral monsters. It is, perhaps, only to Antifa that I could accurately compare the behavior of so many ‘Christian’ ‘leaders’ and ‘teachers’ and ‘pastors’. I have seen better treatment of the other side in divorce proceedings than what has transpired in the last few years between supposed ‘Christians’ and those they deem to be political or social opponents. I am aware of no fewer than a dozen cases wherein young men have been hounded, harassed, and persecuted by ‘Christian’ ‘pastors’ and ‘leaders’ and ‘elders’, and then often driven out of the church. And all of this has been over beliefs that the overwhelming majority of Christian men have held throughout all of history. If those who have conducted themselves thusly have consciences they believe to be clean, it is only because they are so seared as to be black as soot. The churches are dying because of the wicked men who are ‘leading’ and ‘guiding’ them. If Christians are to be known by their love for one another and the fruits of the Spirit, then the only possible conclusion is that we are dealing with men who simply are not Christian. So be it. “And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.”