The recent Buzzfeed video, “I Am A Christian, But I Am Not …” has been viewed three-quarters of a million times on YouTube, and has received ample response from the likers, sharers, cheerers and jeerers of social media. Its viral popularity spawned a Twitter hashtag #ImAChristianBut.

The video features young Millennials apparently seeking to present Christianity as  loving, accepting, and inclusive, and to distinguish it from negative stereotypes. Judging from its fans, however, its popularity depends almost entirely on perpetuating just those stereotypes. One might even say it commits the sin of slander.

The video also contains a glaring sin of omission: it failed to mention the foundation of Christianity — the good news of Jesus Christ. As the Apostle Paul says in his letter to the Romans, “If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).

In the second half of the video, the question is asked, “What do you want people to know about the Christian faith?” and there is not one mention of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came and saved the world from sin and its penalty of death. No exclamation of His forgiveness and rich mercy toward sinners who have been saved by His grace. A reference to the name of Jesus is surely the bare minimum of anything claiming to be “Christian.”

Some viewers noticed the omission:

https://twitter.com/kcpdip/status/641665420093747200

#ImaChristianBut I don't let millennial Christian culture dictate my theology.

— Jared Kirchberg (@Jaredkirch) September 9, 2015

Happily, as an alternative to the Buzzfeed video, a different hashtag emerged, #ImAChristianSo.

https://twitter.com/burr_elle/status/641666706587414528

#ImAChristianBut I think it should be #ImAChristianSo

— Matt Nightingale (@mattnightingale) September 7, 2015

https://twitter.com/drjewest/status/641580003809996802

Others took the opportunity to rebut the video’s shameless use of stereotypes, such as: “but I’m not homophobic,” “but I am not judgmental,” and “but I am definitely a feminist”:

#ImAChristianSo I believe in God's role for women in the church. Not feminism's.

— Michelle Lesley (@MichelleDLesley) September 9, 2015

#ImAChristianSo people automatically think I am judgmental. I not though, because I know that I'm a sinner that was saved by Grace!!

— James Anthony Love (@JamesAnthonyLuv) September 9, 2015

#ImAChristianSo I vote to #DefundPP and I think the #imachristianbut hashtag is stupid.

— John Downey (@REALjdowney) September 9, 2015

https://twitter.com/BlakeLong116/status/641306921782366213

Others used the hashtag to proclaim Jesus Christ:

#ImAChristianSo my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus Blood and Righteousness

— F. X. Turk (@Frank_Turk) September 9, 2015

https://twitter.com/Olwe2_/status/641309508795518976

#imaChristianSo I love Jesus and seek to live his way, not to conform to the world around me.

— Meirav M. (Berale) 🇮🇱 (@tsfardea) September 9, 2015

So, what about you? How would you complete the hashtag? #ImAChristianSo …