Why is Compassion important?

Growing up a Protestant mystical Christian by college I began to notice just how racist many Christians were nationwide. Being racist is not a compassionate stance by any means. I suppose you don't have to be a Protestant Christian to become a racist but in many areas of the country the two go hand in hand.

Being Anti-Gay and anti-Black and anti-any other race including Native American, Asian, or literally any other ethnicity can also be a part of this too.

So, as I realized this more and more I found that I had to stand further and further back from this type of ongoing Hypocrisy found in many churches throughout the U.S.

But, to some degree I found this racist type of thinking there basically in all religions to a greater or lesser degree of a kind of "Us versus them" kind of thinking.

For example, I was a member of a church in the late 1970s and realized that a girl that was my friend was in trouble. I asked what the problem was and she told me that she told her room mate that she was a lesbian. Both were members of this church and the girl who was the lesbian was moving closer to suicide because the Room Mate had outed this adult girl to the whole church and then the whole church persecuted her for being a lesbian. At the time I was in between marriages and didn't know this girl was a lesbian until she told me the problem because I had been interested in her myself. But, at that point I knew I needed to rescue her from her persecution any way that I could because she was my good friend. So, I rescued her by taking her to the best psychologist I knew before she killed herself from the persecution of the church. This caused me to be removed from this church too. But, to me, if they were going to treat people like this I no longer wanted to be a member of this church or any church that did this to people for ANY reason.

But, unfortunately I realized at that point that I would likely never be a member of any church again after being burned twice (once by my childhood Christian religion and again by another religion I chose to be a part of).

Once bitten twice shy but twice bitten you are done with the whole thing permanently which is what happened to me.

God and Jesus are a daily part of my life but churches have demonstrated fully to me that they cannot be trusted by me ever again. 

So, compassion though I still consider myself to be a mystical Christian I also consider myself to be a Tibetan Buddhist too because I found compassion was what is actually missing from most churches on earth.

So, now I see myself as a mystical Christian Tibetan Buddhist.

By God's Grace