This article says it better than I can. And the author is doing it the right way: he’s not blasting everybody on the Left, but just one individual and her specific behavior. Possibly that’s because he himself, a black Christian, supports most of the Left’s agenda, so he’s calling out one of his own, not somebody on the other side. Perhaps the core of his argument is this:
Look, I get it.
I get that “thoughts and prayers” has become the go-to cliche for those who intend to do nothing about gun violence.
I get that some putative Christians use faith as justification for racism, misogyny, homophobia and Islamophobia.
I get that others ally themselves with a president who could not be less Christian if he had three sixes carved into his forehead.
But I also get that none of that, none of the failings of the human structure we call religion, has the slightest thing to do with the question of whether God is.
And:
Moreover, I find it interesting that folks who would never judge a Muslim by the lunatics who share her faith are so ready to judge me by the lunatics who share mine.
One of the most highly-prized virtues here on the Left is tolerance, which I believe is a Christian virtue, even though it is sadly lacking among many—though not all—Christians. And I think, judging from my own experience here, that the great majority of Kossacks do practice this virtue. But every now and then I come across somebody like the Ms. Post in the article. Somebody who believes, just as too many conservative Christians believe, that “freedom of conscience” is for me and my people, not for you and your people.
Anyway, let Mr. Pitts speak for himself.