Hi Blaine, I appreciate you engaging with this piece. Unfortunately, you are correct in asserting that there are those who have harmed many in forcing the gospel on communities. A stain for sure on the followers of Jesus. Jesus himself never did that and we've done a poor job of following his example.

We are called to preach the gospel though. We do have a vision of God. Jesus said, If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. You may think that that is a narrow vision but it is the Christian vision.