adventures in missing the point

I had a little chat with the Lutheran chaplain today when she stopped by the office. She was the first ordained female in the Lutheran church, back in 1970. She still gets hate mail. For being a woman. You are an abomination to God. You are the whore of Babylon. (What the crap does that even mean?) She leads a group of college students who tutor and mentor children, give of their time, money, and possessions to people in communities who need it most, and work with Fair Trade to counter economic injustice for workers in other countries. They do much more than that that's probably not even advertised, and yet the fact that she's a woman apparently means she should just quit, because she's somehow a disgrace to God.

Modern Western Conservative Christianity makes me very angry.

While things like this make me want to distance myself from Christianity entirely, some people have a better perspective of it. To the accusation of You're ruining the church of God, the Lutheran chaplain sarcastically yet calmly replies, "Wow, I guess I've got power!"