"I don’t recognize the faith of my childhood."

I used the same line in a tweet the other day promoting an article I wrote about how Evangelical Christians in Texas are trying to overturn a federal rule that requires health insurance policies to pay for AIDS prevention drugs.

What an astounding development. What an astonishingly anti-Christian development, even by the standards of my Evangelical Christian upbringing in the 1970s.

Interesting, isn't it, that I just used the word "even," and that I feel pretty certain most readers will understand why?

I'm writing a story right now, as a matter of fact, about how a group of Evangelical Christians in Texas are attacking a local Christian church (and I literally mean attacking, in the sense of physically terrorizing) because the church welcomes and supports transgender people.

Cult?

Well, the Evangelical Church of my childhood, regardless of how misguided I believe it was, did not terrorize people. The church did not try to keep medicine from people.

I don't recognize the faith of my childhood. I really don't.