The most hate-filled paper in my house

For inexplicable reasons, the National Liberty Journal began arriving in my mailbox in July.

I thought the first issue I received was a one-time thing, an announcement of the new "megachurch" in Lynchburg. The new and improved Liberty Baptist Church run by Jerry Falwell.

Yes, this is his publication.

But it seems I am now permanently on the mailing list. I am trying to figure out how to get off that mailing list, as this is the most hate-filled writing I have ever read.

It is not welcome in my home, this so-called "Conservative Christian's Newspaper."

I am not against Christians. Actually I consider myself to be one, having been saved and baptized. But if this is Christianity, I am not of this ilk. I am not into this hate-everybody-rule-the-world thing that oozes from the pages of this paper.

My God is into caring and concern and honesty and pacifism. He doesn't bang the war drums, or march with a fife while men fall dead all around him.

My God cries when we sin, he doesn't grab a bazooka and go blasting away at the sinner. He loves everybody, no matter what you do.

My God, in other words, isn't this god. Apparently the right recognizes this. Under a headline of "Gays 9, Christians O," a story about homosexual representation on television as opposed to Christian characters, there is this:

"As reported above, NBC's ER will reportedly have a Christian character for a few episodes this fall, but we are unsure of whose definition of "Christian" will fashion the character."

Hmm. So there are, apparently, many definitions of Christian. Kind of like there are many definitions of the word "run" in the dictionary, I guess.

Funny, that.

I'll take definition #2, please, the one that has the word "love" in it.