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'I’d venture a guess that there might be a third thing true of every Christian, or at least almost every Christian. There’s someone out there somewhere who doesn’t think they are a “good Christian” at all.'

These words were written by a writer on the Medium publishing platform – which can be an exploitative and abusive platform which has made itself home to a zealous anti-Christian movement.

I began to reply directly – in neither a pro-Christian or anti-Christian manner- but felt the roots of what was being said run far deeper than how things appear on the surface.

I began by writing…

‘Perhaps this is true - but if it is, then it is also true that of those in the world who believe they are 'good people' in general, there is someone out there who doesn't think they are a 'good person' at all, either.’

I went on, but what I intended to be a brief retort, became something more in-depth than I had intended.

That there will always be someone who thinks ill of another – no matter how saintly they may be - is a natural legacy of a self-righteous and abusive world that values opposition, judgement and criticism over love and respect for our humanity.

There are many in our world today who are not looking to love and respect others. They are looking to call out, name and shame, humiliate and cancel them.

I am neither pro nor anti-Christian - I am all for loving our humanity as it is - but I do know people beyond labels. And I love people beyond labels because of their humanity.

I stand opposed to any world that values the self-righteous judgement and naming and shaming of others, no matter who it comes from nor who it is aimed at.

There are millions of people around the globe who would call themselves 'Christian' and who live humble and anonymous lives which are nourishing and fruitful for the communities in which they belong.

Who strive, in all their humanity, to be what God has asked them to be.

They don't judge others.

They aren't homophobic.

They don’t hate women.

They aren’t opposed to same-sex marriage.

And they don't harass others with their beliefs.

In fact, many Christians around the world – regardless of the branch of Christianity – aren’t scrutinising others in any way shape or form, to see if there is something they can find to attack.

Unlike the authors on Medium – both Christian and atheist alike – who seek to bring the sword of judgement down upon those who do not meet their approval.  

These Christians go to work, try to look after their kids and do their best to be someone who meets and greets others as they come - with love in their hearts.

They are not judging others, because they aren't watching others.

They have no desire to be the stick that whacks others into line.

Only to be a 'good person'.

Almost every Christian I know does not view themselves as a 'good Christian'.

They don't think like that, and they do not declare it. They don’t think there is anything special about them at all.

And nor do they look at others as ‘bad Christians’.

Or even as Christians.

They are the poor in spirit.

People will be people.

There will be Christians who judge, and non-Christians who judge.

Interestingly, on the exploitative, abusive and misrepresentative platform that is Medium, many Christians and atheists stand united in their judgement and criticism of Christians.

On Medium they find a common enemy.

Atheists hating on Christians and Christians hating on Christians who don't practice Christianity like them.

That’s the surface of the issue.

But as I said at the beginning, the roots of the issue run much deeper.

What I am writing is not a discussion on ‘good’ Christians and ‘bad’ Christians.

It is about a world that has turned its back on love and has turned its back on our sacred human nature.

One will find hypocrisy - and many other weapons that are easy to use - against any human being should we put another’s life under a microscope.

We are living in an ‘I'll get you, you just wait and see' world.

Even the progressive-liberal movement that is rampant around the world today is largely fuelled by the hatred, judgment, humiliation and cancellation of people who think differently.

When the humanity of another – what they think and believe – does not suit their way of thinking or living, look out.

There is nothing progressive or liberal about a movement that seeks to eradicate all forms of human belief, thinking and expression that doesn't conform to the beliefs and attitudes of the movement.

It is sourced in socio-cultural and political supremacism.

Such a movement can be dressed up in any way the world likes, but that is the truth.

That human beings will think differently is as natural and essential to our nature and form as any differences we might have in skin colour.

Trying to eradicate a line of thought is like trying to eradicate a race.

If any movement or action is inhumane it is one that would cancel the humanity of another.

To do that one must be heartless. They must be devoid of compassion and empathy for what the human experience really is.

The author of the quote spoke of bigotry.

Bigotry is 'one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.'

If I call out the hypocrisy of Christians, but not the hypocrisy of those who call themselves liberal and progressive, I am a bigot.

Just as I am a bigot if I call out the lies and crimes of one political party and turn a blind eye to those of the party I support.

Do these things, and I am the definitive bigot.

Our world is full of bigots – not through me using this label but through their bigotry - who despise, mock and ridicule what they believe is bigotry in others.

It is just that in our post-truth world – where things are not what they are, but what we say they are – we accept and even encourage certain brands of bigotry, while denouncing others.

The anti-Christian community on Medium - and there is one - is bigoted.

You see, hypocrisy is everywhere.

Even in those who sit in judgement of the hypocrisy of others.

In our world it is a case of 'my sins are okay, but yours aren't - and I will call you out on yours!'

When each of us is human this makes for an ugly world. Where no one is safe.

It remains only a matter of time before someone, somewhere, for whatever reason, will turn their judgemental eyes towards us, and begin the calling out and cancellation process.

There’s an acronym for the hateful.

The CCP.

The calling out and cancellation process.

When someone makes a mistake or thinks differently to the ‘governing’ thought of the day, we can send in the CCP Police.

The sociocultural watchdogs who prey on the humanity of others when they do not like it.

In conditional expression our humanity is considered sacred.

It is a gift.

It is never up for public humiliation and desecration.

Nor mocking and ridicule.

Our humanity should be the reason we feel liberated, safe and light. And the reason to love others.

But it has become our prison.

Being human has people walking on eggshells. Scared to speak what is on their minds.  

People won’t share what they think in meetings, and children are chiselled into numbness by a world that won’t leave them alone.

But instead of using our scared nature as a source of love, we have created an abusive world where it is used as a weapon against those who don’t live up to our self-righteous expectations.  

Make no mistake, the reason anyone might choose to hate, is the same reason those with love in their hearts would choose to love.

We are all human.

Flawed and imperfect.

You see, in our world, there are people who hate bigotry but are bigoted when it suits their agenda.

There are people who say they stand for love, but who hate those who have different sociocultural beliefs and attitudes.

There are those who claim to hate racism and sexism, but proudly embrace these 'isms' when the target is deemed okay to be treated unfairly.

The world has decided 'noble' racism and sexism is okay, and yet it is still racism and sexism.

On Medium you will see Christians and Non-Christians hating Christians.

Generalising about them.

Gaslighting them by telling the world why Christians do what they do and say what they say.

Imagine a Christian writing a piece called 'why atheists do this or that.'

They would get hammered.

And yet atheists write like this about Christians on Medium all the time.

In our human experience it would be progressive to love others as they come.

This love is the foundation of conditional expression.

And conditional expression is the way of life that loves, accepts and embraces the reality that is our human experience - as it is.

Not as we might want it to be.

It is the transformative love of reconciliation.

Not the blinkered love of transformation.

The love of reconciliation says, ‘I love you as you are!’

The love of transformation says, ‘I will only love you if you think like me, live like me and believe what I believe.’

The love of reconciliation is the love of our humanity.

The love of ‘transformation’ is the love that deems our humanity – our greatest and most sacred gift – inadequate.

It is there to be attacked, ridiculed and rubbed out.

And that is what is happening – even on a legislative and policy level.

Our humanity should never have been something we use to destroy others.

It should be our reason to love others.

Our world is hellbent on eradicating our humanity.

And we are well on the way to achieving this most sinister of objectives.

That is what must happen if we seek a world that values the hatred and destruction of the very thing we are.

There is no worldly prison that could come close to the living hell that will be life without the colour, soul and vibrancy of our humanity in its most natural and essential form.

We will walk the streets freely, trapped in a soulless body of skin.

Never knowing who we might have been or what we might have thought, because we have been whipped into nothing more than a numb and neutered walking corpse - by a movement that called itself liberal and progressive.

Yes, we will walk the streets, complying to the ways of a world that eradicated our humanity.

Perfect in the eyes of that world, but numb.

Everything will seem so wonderfully perfect and impotent on the surface.

But all will exist with a nagging feeling, deep inside the pockets of our human souls, that something is not quite right.

That something, in fact, is horribly, horribly wrong.

We might change what we are on the surface.

But we can never eradicate what lies underneath.

Already I am working with teenage children who have articulated to me that they feel like they have no identity because one is being forced upon them.

I will quote one of them.

'Tim, if I am just being what everyone tells me I need to be to be accepted by society, who am I?'

He went on.

'What am I?'

Indeed.

What are we, when our humanity and all that comes with it, has been drained from us?

We will no longer be a 'who.'

But a 'what.'

Loving and preserving our humanity - and keeping it sacred - does comes at a cost.

It means we have to make space for the humanity of others when we don't necessarily like it or agree with it.

And, if it is love we bear in our hearts, we must meet the humanity of others with respect and compassion.

We must preserve the dignity of others, even when the world might say it is up for judgment, mocking and ridicule.

If we truly carry love in our hearts, it should not be hard to love the humanity of another.

After all – it is human!

But if it is hate that resides in our hearts, then the human experience is fertile ground.

Anyone, no matter how noble and righteous they make themselves out to be - or how progressive and liberal they claim to be - will always find a reason to hate another, when their capacity for hate is real.

Hate does not come into our world because a human being is hateable.

Hate comes into our world because a human being chooses to hate.

Under a scientific microscope, all hate is the same.

The hate of the racist.

The hate for Christians.

And the sociocultural and political hate rampant around our world today.

Much of the latter sourced in those who call themselves liberal and progressive.

And who suffers all of this?

Life.

One thing Life does not need from anyone is hate.

If it is our humanity we hate, then Life will be filled with it, like a cancer victim is filled with cancer.

Remember, the people we hate and ridicule don't experience the hate we bring into the world.

We do.

And Life does.

Noble hate thrives in our modern world.

And yet hate cannot exist unless someone is hating something. Or someone.

When hate comes into our world, the source of the hate is not the human being hated.

It is the person doing the hating.

And the target of a hater is always the same.

The target is a human being.

The target is our humanity.

This is true, whether we are hating ourselves or another - for whatever reason.

Conditional expression is the way of love for the human experience.

It is Life-centred and will always defend the human nature of the Life we are blessed to belong to.

This love is neither passive nor impotent.

It is a love that stands up for what it believes in and respects that others should be free to do the same.

To that end it is a fiery and fierce love that loves its enemies.

We can stand opposed to others with the love of conditional expression.

That is how we embrace, and stand strong, in our own humanity. And how we respect and hold sacred the dignity and humanity of others.

Right now, we are fighting for Life.

We are fighting for our humanity and the human soul.

And we are fighting against an abusive and self-righteous world that would eradicate it in a heartbeat.

Defending our humanity, and preserving it, comes at a cost.

But the cost of eradicating it is far worse. And will be far more severe. It will create an inescapable living hell.

Life will no longer be a river.

It will become a dam.

People will be born into an identity that is forced upon them

And the world will be watching to make sure they are the thing - yes, the 'thing'- they are told to be.

And all will be well.

Except it won't.

We will exist with a 'knowing' that no one will be able to articulate because the true gift of our humanity - our uniqueness and individual styles of thinking and expression - will have been eradicated.

We will have become a walking corpse.

Perfect in the eyes of the sociocultural fascist society we have been born into.

But existing with a deep and unshakeable sense that something is wrong.

And what is wrong will be this.

We will be human.

But our humanity will be a distant memory.

Still there, trapped in a body not allowed to use it.

I, for one, refuse to stand by as our greatest and most sacred gift is eradicated.

Our humanity is Life’s humanity.

It is our design.

And already, the movement to drain society of our humanity is having an horrendous impact on our children.

They are already experiencing the numbness and futility of a world that never leaves them alone, and never gives them the space required to think and be.

A world that instead, starts drilling their heads as soon as they are born with the expectations and responsibilities that come with being a submissive and model citizen in a human world that does not permit liberated and free-thinking human expression.

They are being raised in a world that says out loud, 'Be who you are! Be yourself'

But in practice it says, 'If you are not something we like and approve of we are going to destroy you!'

And destroy you we will.

Importantly, our education systems are complicit in this desecration of our humanity.

People will say, 'it’s just the way things are!'

Or 'there is nothing we can do about it!'

These are words I have heard.

Yes, there is something we can do about it.

I have been advocating for a Life-centred approach to education, fuelled by the way of conditional expression, for over ten years.

And yes, Catholic, and therefore Christian, schools have rejected this approach.

Life is under attack by our abusive world.

It always has been.

Since the beginning of time.

It is exploited and abused.

And today, the very thing we are remains under threat.

Life is human.

To be human is our true nature and form.

The planet would not be better off without us. It exists for us.

How lucky we are to be different.

How cruel to want to eradicate those differences!

I say differences - but it is only the differences people don't like that the hateful want to eradicate.

The fight for Life is on.

Not for our physical existence.

But for the Life inside and out that makes it so special, unique and sacred – our human spirit.

I stand with Life and for Life.

Against a world that would have it beat into submission.

And will forever strive to embody the type of love that says, 'Come as you are - that is how I love you!'

We will all have a personal set of ideals and stand for those ideals.

But we do not have to hate those whose attitudes and beliefs are different to ours.

We will love and embrace these differences if it is our humanity we love.

But we will hate and seek to eradicate them – or make them illegal - if it is hate that breathes in our heart.

Only the heart capable of hate, can hate.

No matter who or what the target.

And so it is.

Amen.

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The first book of conditional expression was published in 2017. It spoke of loving our enemies and steering our world away from one fuelled by hate and opposition, to one fuelled by love.

It was called, 'Meditations for Action - Our Full Expression with Love'.

In 2018 I published the full Conditional Expression philosophy of love in action. This book established conditional expression as the way of life that valued the love and acceptance of our own humanity and the humanity of others over any right we might feel we have to desecrate the humanity of another.

Click here for 'Part 2 - It Begins with Love and Acceptance'.

In 2019 I called on our world to 'Stop in 2020' to avoid the catastrophes to come - and which have come - and to eradicate those that had already arrived.

Our world does not love Life as it is.

And it is Life who suffers.

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