lj, I know all of that. You completely missed my point. I was simply saying that instead of judging them and talking about how they are going to burn in hell, he defended them from those kinds of people. No, he did not just accept them as they are and tell them not to change, he encouraged change, but he encouraged change through love, not condemnation and hate. Condemnation and hate are one of the things Christians are bashed about the most these days, my point was that when Christians engage in condemnation and hate they are not being very Christ like and should not be seen as a reflection of what a Christian ought to be.

While people acting under the banner of Christianity have done more than their fair share of horrible things, it is not because the Bible told them to do it.