You might be but don’t know it. Here are some indicators you can use to check for possible symptoms:
1. You think of Christians as though they don’t really belong in your binge drinking, sex mad, greed driven, God denying, and hopelessly corrupt society. (You got that right.)
2. You wouldn’t think of using the name of God or Jesus in a nice way but only to curse it in the worst way possible.
3. You demean God’s creation by incorporating into your vulgar expressions the perfectly natural bodily functions and parts that are necessary for waste disposal and human reproduction.
4. You believe that there must be other life forms “out there” in space, in spite of the fact that none has ever been found, and that billions of dollars have been spent trying to prove that it’s more than a theory. (There’s a likelihood that any life form smart enough to cross the millions of light years in distance and pay us a visit would think of humans in the way that we think of basic life forms.)
5. You freak out when you see someone carrying a Holy Bible, with its strange stories, but think it perfectly natural to expose yourself to horror movies, in which humans are ripped apart by raging alien monsters. And you don’t mind your children absorbing beyond weird ideas promoted by talking animals and grotesque life forms in movies that promote pagan religious concepts.
6. You question what Christians have ever done to improve life for anyone. Are you kidding? Schools, hospitals, abolition of slavery (in the Western world, that is — many Muslims still practice it), scientific and medical discoveries. Did you know that the famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton was a genuine, practicing Christian? So too was Louis Pasteur. Or that Einstein believed there must be a God for everything to function as it does? As did many other great men and women down through history.
Truth is you’re probably not Christianophobic but just plain ignorant, and maybe even afraid of facing God’s judgement after death. But then, given that Jesus Christ will one day reveal your most secret sins in front of everyone, and then judge you for committing them, my guess is that you are Christophobic as well.
I am a believer in Jesus Christ and have been for 63 years. You might give some thought to becoming a believer yourself. After all, you do want to live forever, don’t you? And given the choice between trying to avoid demons, mass murderers and weird psychos in Hell below, and that of mingling with Jesus, angels, and forgiven people in Heaven above, the choice is a no brainer.
But then, I have to admit that after finding Jesus at age 21, yielding my life to him, finding that the New Testament makes more sense than any other book I’d ever read, and then enjoying personal peace to the max – I wouldn’t swap being a Christian for the world.
There’s only one opportunity to make the right choice and that’s while we’re still alive, and since every one of us is but a breath from death, I suggest that you do something about your Christianophobia by becoming a Christ-lover. It’s not hard. Start by praying to God. Ask Him to forgive your sins because Jesus died to save you from them, then get baptized in water as a sign of your sincerity, and then tell others about it. Don’t just think about it but do it, and do it now.