Dear Christians — We Need to Talk About Your Privilege

An open letter to those who think it’s hard to be Christian, because they’ve never been anything else

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Dear Christian America,

Especially the more fundamentalist and evangelical among you.

I really need to say something, and for you to hear it.

I hope you won’t take it the wrong way, though I suspect you might.

I say it without hostility towards you, your faith, or your right to practice it. Honestly, it’s nothing personal.

My wife is a Christian, as is my mom, and three-fourths of my ancestral lineage. My daughters were both Baptized, though admittedly in an Episcopal Church, so make of that what you will.

I suspect you’ll make a face of some sort.

I know that sounds judgy, and I don’t mean to judge you without knowing you. But that’s the thing: I sorta do know you.

I’ve known you all of my life.

I’ve had little choice.

And over the years, I’ve come to realize how little you understand what it means to be anything but Christian.

First, because you’ve never been anything else, which is understandable — most…