The Fruits of True Christianity

According to the vice president

The vice president knows what the fruits of true Christianity are. Just ask him. He’ll tell you. He told a group of folks at a Turning Point USA conference what those are on Dec. 21.

“The fruits of true Christianity are men like Charlie Kirk,” he said. “The fruits of true Christianity are good husbands, patient fathers, builders of great things and slayers of dragons.”

What about those of us who are not husbands, or fathers, or we haven’t built “great things,” and certainly haven’t slain fictious creatures.

I get queasy when politicians talk about Christianity and the United States in the same breath. I think of all the people in the country who aren’t Christian, and frankly, that’s a lot of people. Tens of millions of people. What about them? What about the atheists? The people who believe in a higher power but not a Christian one? What about Jews and Muslims? How about Hindus? If I was a Jew or Muslim, how would I feel hearing this language? I’m a Christian and I don’t like it.

Why is that? Because I suspect the vice president wouldn’t like my Christianity. It’s probably not “true Christianity.” And who made him the arbiter of “true Christianity” anyway? I didn’t. Did he get a theology degree, or a Master of Divinity degree and I’m not aware of it?

Who is he to say what the fruits of “true Christianity” are? Is he a Roman Catholic priest? Is he the pope? What is “true Christianity”? And do we want a politician telling us what that is? I don’t think so.