As Christians we are promised in the Bible that we will face persecution and the world will hate us. Jesus said:

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. John 15:18

But my question [to American Christians] is this: Does the world hate us because of Christ within us? Or does it hate us because we have a tenancy to act like pompous, religious, harsh, judgmental,  know-it-alls?

I think we live with a false justification that if we act judgmental and non-Christlike it is okay because the world rejects us. And the Bible says we’ll be rejected. But, we aren’t called to make the world reject us. It should be simply be the existence of Christ within us and the path to which he calls us to walk that will bring rejection. Not the other way around. We’ve gone down the wrong road and forgotten who we were following in the first place.

Am I wrong?