Another Good Reason to be a Christian

[Esquilax]

*sigh*

So does Christianity really make people joyous?  I don't see much sign of it, though I do know a couple joyous Christians.

Seems like it's the closer they get to the left, politically, that influences that. All the right wing christians here are vicious, sour-faced vultures, whereas my christian mother in-law is one of the nicest, happiest people I know. She also happens to be left wing and married to a woman, and if you think about it, even the more liberal christians on here are the ones that also seem nicer too; I'd much rather hang out with a pre-conversion Jacobsmooth or Lek than I would... well, I don't want to point fingers.

Hell, now that I think about it, the family I married into is a perfect cross-section of this: the left wing family members are the nice, sweet ones, whereas the right wing ones have either burned so many bridges they've got nowhere else to turn (not coincidentally all of those bridges were burned by their actions alone, over issues of conservative public policy and their overlapping religious concerns) or have and will stab you in the back for their own personal gain.

There's probably other factors involved, but I can't deny there's a trend there.