When it comes to hateful Internet speech, Christians are the worst. That's the headline of an article by Washington Post
columnist and OnFaith founder Sally Quinn. If the headline didn't get
your attention, the teaser for the op-ed might. It reads: "Thanks to
horrible Christian comments online, I realized there's a big difference
between being Christian and following Jesus.""The first hate emails I received were horrible. They did not just attack what I wrote—which was usually about spirituality more than religion—but were also vicious ad hominem attacks. I can't tell you how many people wrote in to say that I was a whore and a slut and so much worse that I can't even write it here," Quinn writes.
"And these all came from Christians. I was going to hell. I had made a pact with the devil. Jesus and God hated me. One man wrote that he hoped I would get in a car accident, that the gas tank would explode and I would be burned alive. He was a God-fearing Christian, and he ascertained that I obviously was not one."
I couldn't agree more. It seems Quinn and I share a similar experience: hatred spewing from the keyboards of commenters who claim to be Christians. I can't judge anyone's salvation from a comment board, but I can attest to the vile vitriol that plagues my inbox, my Facebook page, and many of my articles.
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