“Growing up, I was told that good people go to church.  And then I looked around and watched the news and found a church full of sick people and a world that had some decent pagans.  And I studied sociology.  My studies taught me that the higher a person’s frequency of church attendance, the more likely they are to be sexist, racist, anti-gay, promilitary, and committed to their local church.  And I figured if that’s what it meant to be a Christian, I wan’t sure I wanted to be one, or whether even Jesus would want to be one, for that matter.  I wondered why Jesus didn’t take back his religion.  As I’ve heard by old mentor Tony Campolo say, ‘If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has take over the airwaves of North America.’”