Christianity should be centered upon love, not on carnal power. Jesus loves Christian and non-Christians, Jesus also loves immigrants, “illegal” immigrants, refugees, and “foreigners,” Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, and Communists. Jesus loves every person regardless of their race, religion, gender, or creed. Jesus died on the cross for all of humanity. But due in part to an obsessive political allegiance, loving others has become nearly impossible for too many Christians.

Instead of loving their neighbor as themselves, oppressive legislation has been a hallmark of some Christians’ religious practice: deporting immigrants, blocking refugees, limiting asylum, banning foreigners, prohibiting gay marriage, expanding massive incarceration, increasing global military operations, vilifying the poor, stripping environmental protections, widening voter suppression, and spewing widespread rhetoric that’s bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, ethnocentric, ignorant, and racist.

This religion often calls itself “Christianity,” but its love for Jesus has been substituted by an obsession with obtaining political, social, and economic power. The fruits of the Holy Spirit have been replaced with xenophobia, bigotry, racism, hate, and fear. And the words and actions of Jesus have been weaponized into vague platitudes of “Christianity” which look and act nothing like the person of Christ.

The god of this Christianity isn’t Jesus but is a political ideology that worships power and control above all else. And this Christianity’s enemy isn’t Satan, but is anything and anyone deemed “liberal.” Instead of following the words and actions of Christ, Christianity has idolized leaders whose words and actions are contradictory to those of Jesus.

There’s a religion whose savior was a refugee, yet it rejects refugees. Whose God embraces sojourners, yet it deports immigrants. Whose parishioners worship someone called the Prince of Peace, yet they defend violence and are pro-war. Whose hero was an ethnic minority, yet they’re complicit in white supremacy. Whose Christ was unlawfully arrested and killed by a governing empire, yet it has become nationalistic and oppressive. Whose ultimate model for behavior preached selfless sacrifice and lived humbly, but now its followers idolize political power and carnal wealth. There’s a popular type of “Christianity” that wants nothing to do with Christ other than to use His namesake to promote its own agendas."

They demonize secular people, but they are secret nonbelievers themselves. They demonize people of all of the other religions, but they like their religions more than Christianity. They demonize social justice because they are afraid of the social injustices in their own lives. They glorify the prosperity theology, but they are facing impoverishment.