black and white

I'm just lying in my bed...it's such a subtle yet significant difference: eyes open/eyes closed. It is 3am and I was hoping to be asleep before it got here, but during these late nights, I think most clearly.

While my grandmother was here, I attended a Korean presbyterian church with her, and one worldview I noticed in Christian circles is to see everything in black and white. Every activity, viewpoint, attitude, thought, opinion is either right or wrong. I suppose that from God's point of view this must be true. Perhaps that is the inference of Jesus' words in Luke 11:23: He who is not with me is against me.

But there is something disturbing about this worldview in practice. It seems that the stronger someone holds to this view, and I'm thinking of practicing fundamentalists in particular, the farther they are from exemplifying the love of Christ, to extending grace and mercy in His name. More modern day Pharisees. More law. More hate. Something is out of whack here. There must be a better way.