My response to a scathing ridicule and criticism of Christians and the Bible

Whatever your views may be, someone said, “No one is as intolerant as the one who insists on imposing his definition of tolerance on everyone else.” I happen to be a person who believes the claims of the Bible and history that Jesus Christ is God, and I am trusting and following Him as my Savior. I don’t expect those who don’t believe or choose to follow Him to live as I do, and it’s not my place to judge them. While there are some on both sides of the issue who rabidly accuse and judge those who disagree with them, it seems most sincere Christians as well as many who don’t claim to be Christians are willing to live peaceably with others. As a believer in Christ and the Bible, I wonder sometimes if those who are so offended by the very existence of people like me aren’t fighting against what they inwardly believe and fear to be true about God more than against anything I am doing that doesn’t even directly affect them. My simply being a believer in something they don’t want to be true feels threatening, and thus they see me as a messenger they want to shoot rather than consider the message I represent.