The Chicken Christians: Displaying Their Chicken Christianity

Puffing their chests and clucking their tongues, people flocked to chick filet like a flock of chickens, professing their love for Christian values. Because Jesus said, “Go eat fast-food chicken!” Not “love your neighbor” Not “treat others as you wish to be treated.”  Unlike many Fundamentalist American Christians, Jesus was not a hater. Many of these fundamentalist haters will tell you they are not haters; simply, they are performing their Christian duty to uphold Christ’s teachings. To them I respond, If your idea of upholding Christ’s teachings is to individually, collectively, systemically, and chronically hate your neighbors, I think you may have missed the point of His Lessons. And please don’t tell me that you love your neighbors but hate their sins. Love is love is love is love.  Love your neighbors and celebrate the abundant goodness that comes from finding love and sharing love and being in love. To do otherwise, dear haters, is a protest against love, and need I remind you, love is Jesus’s basic teaching. If you really want to be a good Christian, go plant some seeds, have an open conversation with somebody who doesn’t look like they could be related to you, listen to the story of another, give some money to a homeless person, donate some fresh produce to a food pantry. But please, don’t puff up your chest like a righteous Christian just because you bought fast-food at a discriminatory place and ate some chicken in the name of hate.