it's okay to vilify Jesus

Many things I don't understand. Well, I can understand why people do certain things, but I don't understand why we don't see that we contradict ourselves.

And I will place my cards on the table: I'm saying all this because I stand on the side of the One people insult.

We say that religions co-exist, 
But then we give nasty names to Jesus.
We say that there is freedom of religion, 
But we ridicule those who carry the name of Christ.

We protect the freedom of speech,
Yet we spend time trolling on YouTube
Leaving no videos about Jesus un-insulted.

We say all is right if nobody's hurt
But those who follow Jesus, we hurt 

We say we (try to) live by the Golden Rule,
When we hate the Rabbi who taught it - and lived it
Even if keeping it meant losing His life

It's okay to vilify Jesus. Great, even.

Because it shows, apparently, that we are:

Rational, Scientific, Intelligent, Open-minded, Objective, Independent

A Critical Thinker Who is Of Sound Reason
Enlightened.

And Jesus wants me to love these people sincerely?! And I'm supposed to overcome evil with good by asking God to bless them...no tit for tat? Surely giving them three-sixteenths a teaspoon of their own medicine is no revenge, no? 

Yet I know that during the times when I disregard the Love of my life, I do just the same. I deny Him and choose my own way to live, my own decisions, my own ideas, which are by nature at war with His goodness and love. During those times, I, too, actually believe that it's okay to vilify Jesus.

And each time I would think that I am:

Rational, Scientific, Intelligent, Open-minded, Objective, Independent

A Critical Thinker Who is Of Sound Reason
Enlightened.

Time and again I come to Jesus ashamed. Surely it's beyond pardon...I contradict the very love I profess for Him. Yet He says that He remembers my betrayals no more, and that I should not avoid Him deceiving myself that I have it all.

It is Jesus' sincere and insistent love that first so powerfully won and still wins me over, so how can I contain this love that was meant to overflow? After all, who am I, really, to not do the same for people - regardless of what they have done?