This is very good. I don't claim to be Christian even though I was raise Catholic and believe in Christian values. Actually I shun the Christian label, today it stands more for hypocrisy than virtue.

I am not religious, Christian or a nationalist. I try hard to be virtuous and to do what God wants but I don't follow any religion or regularly attend any church. I look to many religions for inspiration and find such there quite often.

I am quite bothered by Religious Nationalists around the world and much bothered by the Christian Nationalists in the U.S.A. who are often insulting when I point out their hypocrisy.

From this story you wrote, I feel you understand the issue and are trying to put some separation between the Nationalist hypocrites and true Christians. I respect true Christians and you for that but feel that true Christians are in the minority among all who claim to be Christians. My first impulse, which I try to resist, when someone tells me they are a Christian is to consider them a hypocrite.

TEK