This religious post is guaranteed to offend you.

no matter what side you're on, this one will bother you. I promise.

 

Normally I would post this on my personal blog, but I wanted people to hear about this. It's sad and disappointing. I was not the only one who fled to the girl's bathroom to sob after the experience.

 

First of all, the following I heard from a fellow classmate and his friends, who had been on campus for more than one of these experiences. There is a traveling evangelist who goes around to different college campuses all over the united states. he holds up signs that preach the gospel in a very unloving verbally violent offensive way such as "you deserve hell" and the like (I don't remember the exact verbiage.) He stands on the UC lawn and talks into a microphone, and has someone videotape it. He preaches until someone hits him, then he sues the school. That is how he funds his ministry.

 

Talk about using Christ for personal gain.

 

When I heard it back in September, it irritated me. I didn't really expect it to be so bad though.

 

He came to school today. And I did get a chance to talk to him, and the things he was saying to the other students were horrible. He was calling them evil horrible sinners, telling them things like "you are all going to burn in hell!" and stuff like that. One guy cussed him out, and he started fighting with him.

 

Jesus didn't act like that.

 

and that was what I told him. I told him that Jesus preached the truth in love. Jesus didn't fight with people. and yet he argued with me and then ignored me when I wouldn't go away. I was furious. I every muscle in my body was shaking and I was crying by the time I left. when the guy started ignoring me, one of his assistants started talking to me.

 

Eventually I just gave up and left. I cried in the bathroom for a good half hour. a few other girls came in and we talked and managed to calm down with each other's help, but for the rest of the day I've gone out of my way (WAY out of my way) to avoid walking past that area again. Last time I saw, the students were chanting something at him.

 

The thing that gets me is that he just made my job a whole lot harder. Now everyone who experienced that is going to have a bad vision of Christians and of Jesus Christ. I couldn't give a crap about my reputation—it's pretty much ruined anyway. But Jesus' reputation is seriously tainted.

 

One girl said he comes back every year.

 

and the police can't get him off campus. They tried, but because of freedom of speech they can't do anything until it gets violent.

 

For those of you who are hurt: please pray that God changes the heart of this guy and forgives him. Pray that God will use the Christians on my campus as tools to show the others what Jesus really acts like.

 

And for those of you who look down on Christians, and are hurt or angry because of the unlovingness of this man: I'm sorry. I promise we're not all like that.