I share your disgust. It is precisely this behavior, coupled with the creation or promotion of smear threads against political adversaries while similar topics regarding candidates that the same posters intend to vote for go ignored, that led me to explore my motivations and then ultimately lose my faith. I reason that Christians who believe will embrace honesty and dignity, and when I note that so many professed Christians here display overt rejection of both, I had to wonder if virtually everyone's faith is a lie. Maybe just a convenient way to balm anxiety and to avoid having to answer difficult questions from themselves about their personal failures, maybe a needed way to feel a sense of tribe, whatever. The beautiful thing is, I kept what was best from Christianity, the love of neighbor and service. I still believe we shoukd give our lives in service of our fellow man, even if I'm not sure there's a reward. I think maybe the knowledge that you're a decent man is the reward.
