That horrible face in the mirror

There is so much wrong with your post that I have no idea where to start but here goes. First, it is hard to take any comment about any subject seriously when you start by admitting you only tried it once.

Secondly, you said you went to share your views and not to learn, which was not received well, nor should it have been. Those types of discussions do not take place during a service, seek out a local Christian, grab a seat and expect to spend weeks going through your list of questions. Worst case you make a friend outside of your normal social circle, best case you learn to accept and understand someone else's worldview. Although you meant no disrespect it was, do you think walking into a steak restaurant and wanting the staff to stop what they were doing and discuss vegan lifestyle would have gone off any better?

Lastly, you still think you get to set the rules "I’ll go back to church once they start treating their guests like Jesus would have." I have gone to church most of my life and I can't tell you what Jesus would do. You only got one thing right, you do not belong in church if your only goal was to attack their faith, you have no baseline knowledge and no desire to learn or to change. By Christian standards, you are as lost as a person can get. To end on a positive note, so are most of the people in the church you mentioned. Every church is full of lost people, Christians working hard on their faith journeys, and everyone is welcomed.

What should have happened if you found someone to talk faith with, and expected them to mentor, teach, and explain why they believed what they believe. What they expect to gain from their faith and not expected them to adopt your standards. I encourage you to try again, there are hundreds of places online that can help you with your questions and when you are ready to share views, find a church and start over.

Absolutely outstanding reply!

As I look back on my life, not once did I enter into any new field of endeavor or study with any attitude other than, 'I am here to learn and to work; please allow me to participate'. Once one learns what others consider to be the necessary basics and actually feel reasonably comfortable applying them THEN one can cautiously (step-by-step) begin picking things apart and PRIVATELY accept and discard and add new until one has achieved a personal aspect of mastery of the subject.
Until liberals/progressives/leftists grasp that core concept they are just spinning their wheels . . . posturing.

Sounds like we are cut from the same cloth, I have always sought out people that could teach me things. One of the lessons that I remember from the old man that I borrowed this name from was "never show anyone your scrap pile." He taught me to practice, tweak the design and show the best version of what you can do. If people saw the scrap pile, the failures and practice pieces that is all they would ever see. I no longer do metal work, but that lesson applies to everything, no matter the job, to learn you must practice, fail, learn more and perfect it.

Aye!

Degenerate here.

I never went to a church to exchange political views.

What I gather from reading is Jesus clearly advocated the separation of the kingdom of God from the kingdoms of men.

I don't know what Jesus would do in the situation described either, He likely would have said something along the line of "go and sin no more".

Impossible to say, what Jesus would have said we don't even know what the person and the church members discussed, we only know he didn't want to accept their answers. There are few people that can really claim a knowledge of the Bible, only actual study, reading it over a lifetime, and dedication can get you there. I am not there yet, I ok with explaining my own faith, but I am no preacher and have desire to be one.