Not funny
mood: 
irritated
irritatedHonestly, I love God more than I'm in love with ideas on how to build a better community. I'm more committed to His authority than I am to endless opinions on this, that, or the other thing. And even though I may criticize and poke fun, when His people are genuinely pursuing Him, I hate to see them kicked around from the outside (or even from within by professed Christians who are really working out other issues between themselves and God under the cloak of critique).
As Martin Luther said, "The church may be a whore, but she's my mother."
Didn't mean to offend, but I'm an outsider looking in. I just see/feel so much hate in the general "Christian" population, I feel totally unwelcome in that realm. I am in the south, maybe that is the problem.
The gospel itself can also be offensive to our sensibilities—hearing that we are sinful and need to repent and believe in God's salvation through Christ and Christ alone isn't very easy to swallow. In our culture, even saying such a thing can easily be categorized as narrow-minded and hateful.
Failing to say it, however, is the truly hateful thing. It's contempt masked as tolerance, withholding hope and healing from people with whom God wants to reconcile because we're either afraid someone won't like us, or we just don't care. Yet if we're speaking without love, we're just making noise. It's a good reminder.