On Saturday afternoons in a small country town in Australia, two sisters - both in their 80’s - take the intellectually disabled grandson of one of them, to Mass.
They sit up the front, and the grandson participates loudly and enthusiastically.
He loves the Mass and it gives him great joy.
During the week, these and other retirees, take care of their church, cleaning it and making it beautiful by arranging fresh flowers etc
It would be fair to say Christianity - in its Catholic form - is the significant component of their lives.
Their involvement in which brings daily expressions of love, kindness, peace and joy into the world.
I am sure people from all around our world could add millions of similar stories to this post.
And many of these would come from impoverished villages and towns where people have nothing other than the Mass .
Or the church.
I am assuming your visceral hate is for the evangelical church of the United States.
But when you throw in the term Christianity - it encompasses all Christians.
Many of which bring pure and genuine expressions of love into our world.
And actually, this is the best thing our world could do at them moment.
Increase expressions of love, to combat and, hopefully overwhelm, the considerable amount of hate and anger poisoning our world today.
Long story short, if you feel hatred for anything in this world - and in a human experience there will always be many opportunities and excuses to feel this way - that hatred belongs to you and the world.
No Christian anywhere in the world, including those in my little hometown of Cootamundra, in New South Wales, Australia, experiences your hatred.
Just you.
And life.
The best thing our world can do is eradicate hate.
In all its forms.
If anything.
In a human experience, love - genuine and pure, the type upon which conditional expression is founded - has no boundaries.
Not one of us will ever have our capacity to extend love to anyone, and any situation, restricted.
We restrict that ourselves.
Your visceral hate lives in you.
It enters our world in you.
And remains in you.
Life does not benefit from hate.
It is impossible.
But it does suffer from it.
And that is a fact, both spiritual and scientific.