Great essay Jonatha. It is unfathomable that notions so clearly unchristian have become associated with the Prince of Peace. I heard that many of these actually anti-Christians find the New Testament 'too wake for them". They prefer the vindictive God of the Old Testament, which Jesus (a Brown man) denounced. But weird religion is not the heart of the matter for them, it is all about wanting to dictate how others should live their lives. Which, by the way, is what the Separation of Church and State was designed to prevent.