Who do you go to when there's nothing left?

(This letter I sent to the LSU student newspaper "The Reveille" so it is short... if you want to know more of the conversation I'd be more than glad to talk about it."

I’m writing in anger and distress concerning the “Consuming-Fire Fellowship,” the local so called evangelical church that frequents our beloved campus.
Let it be known that I am a conservative protestant, and that according to a recent Reveille article I should be considered religiously intolerant. However, I am outraged and disgusted with the methods used by “Consuming-Fire Fellowship” to quote “….spread the gospel.” I am referring mainly to the man who wore a sign on his chest listing many, many terrible sins with the warning that “God’s judgment is coming!” Now while I do believe that God will punish those who do not follow His way, Jesus Christ didn’t preach like these people do.
I stopped and talked to the man wearing the sign, and asked him what he hoped to accomplish by standing there. As another Christian student and myself pointed him to his error, he continually ignored our remarks and rattled off scripture, taken out-of-context, rendering it practically worthless.
As we stood there another student walked up and read the sign, and asked if he, (the man with the sign) had ever committed those sins. He said he had, but not after he was “born again” (contrary to the flier that was being handed to every passer-by stating on the front cover “We sin everyday.”) He didn’t bother to evangelize, and tell the young man about Jesus Christ. He stood there in pride, presuming to condemn the young man and the rest of the student body.
I felt a need to address this issue. Not all Christians are lunatics. Our faith tells us that what we believe is the only true way. But we are not to act like jerks and condemn you if you don’t see our way. We are supposed to tell you about Jesus Christ, and if you don’t believe in Him we can’t do anything about it. It’s people like “Consuming-Fire Fellowship” who drive people away from Christianity.

James Mungall
Freshman
Environmental Management Systems