Fair points, Magicpole.
This Christmas I have been firmly cast as the black sheep among the family of the mother of my child. This is tenuously claimed to be because of the confusion it would cause to my young nephew.
These people go to church every Sunday, yet where is their compassion, their forgiveness, their love at this time of year?
Where is the lesson, the example for my infant daughter, from whom I will be isolated and left in the house alone to do the pots for the afternoonn
Too many Christians are rank, bitter and even hateful hypocrites who totally miss the fundamental teachings of their so-called saviour.