I was sincerely attempting to edify and motivate you with scriptural advice and to treat you with kindness out of concern for the distress you've expressed about this discussion. I'm sorry that I wasn't helpful to you. Christians need to be unified about our love for Christ and our efforts to organize our lives and treat one another in accordance to his teachings. We can still honor his primary command to love one another, and yet be in disagreement with one another, sometimes passionately so. Christians have had a diversity of fervently maintained hermeneutical, personal, and political beliefs for millennia, and as long as we are able to be respectful to one another I think debate can be healthy and enriching. The problem is that too often discussions turn into wars of words because people treat them like battles to be won instead of a conversation to be had and see everyone with an opposing perspective as an opponent. Christians who accept evolution simply interpret the Bible differently, but love it and center their lives around it just as much as you do. And when we agree with atheists and those of other faiths on matters of science that's not an act of betrayal against you.
If you came to my church it's doubtful the topic of evolution would arise unless you initiated it.
