We've all been sounding the alarm on fake #CINOs (#Christians In Name Only) now those chickens are coming home to roost. Have fun with that #Christianity without an actual Christ.
"... #evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ."
"For most of my life, American Christians were cheerleaders for democracy. That’s when we were in charge of the democracy.
Today, oddly, many conservative Christians no longer believe in or support democracy. They seem to favor a kind of theocracy or autocracy — so long as they have control. Anything they can’t control is called communism or Marxism, whether it really is or not."
"I’ve thought a lot about James Baldwin’s description of White people, and I believe this particularly applies to White Christian people, as the 'slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.' No one can look at the current state of White Christian churches and other institutions and make a serious argument that they are healthy."
Right wing media drove yet another #transgender person to #suicide by outing them against their will. These so-called #Christians are evil for the way they treat others. This person was hurting no-one by being their best self and exploring their identity.
"The most pressing issue for Christians in the United States isn’t being persecuted for our faith. Rather, it is those who are using our faith as a tool to control and even persecute others in the name of Jesus. Until we Christians can collectively reckon with this reality, we have no hope of reclaiming any integrity."
Those peaceful #Christians intentionally destroyed a #holiday display by #TheSatanicTemple in the #Iowa State Capitol. Just imagine how these same people would react if #Satanists had trashed a #Christmas display. It would be wall-to-wall emergency coverage on #FoxNews, and Y'all Qaeda would get in their trucks and gather under the town Christmas tree for public acts of outrage. The #FirstAmendment protects us all, not just Christians.
David Gushee explains why he wrote his new book Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, which was published today:
"[M]any Christians in the United States and elsewhere today are demonstrating an attraction to a dangerous authoritarian and reactionary politics that poses a grave threat to free and open democracy."
Right-Wing '#Reacher' Fans Flip Out After Alan Ritchson Calls Trump A '#Rapist And A Con-Man'
Ritchson wondered why some #Christians see #Trump as their "poster child" in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
"Many Nazis consider themselves Christian, which means that the bigotry in their hearts and the violence that they intend is the thing they worship as their God, which whatever you might think about Christian tenets isn't a Christian tenet."
“How can #Christians celebrate both Yom Saint #Valentine Ha’Kodesh, and also Ash Fourthday, since they fall on the same #Christian date this year?”
I have it all worked out. I know a lot of Christians (I even have six (6) Christian friends) so I’m happy to solve this one for you. My Christian friends say I know more about Christianity than most Christians!
hint > (they are all fanatical fascists, with different names but identical goals
'ONLYs' want to impose their 'ONLY' on EVERYONE
and where their 'ONLY' wins,
EVERYONE suffer).
Rise in Attacks on Christians in India, Up Four Times in 11 Years (2012-2022)
There have been 525 attacks against Christians in India just in the first eight months of 2023. This year will likely cross the violent record set in 2022, and in 2021 before that. The data does not include incidents from Manipur.
At his White Too Long site today, Robert P. Jones highlights books being released this fall that he recommends, in addition to his own The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future:
American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church, by Andrew Whitehead
"[W]hy are #Jews around the world held to account for the actions of the #Israeli government when this correlation does not apply to any other country? #Christians are not attacked for the predations of the United States, nor are #Muslims abused for the transgressions of Iran. Pakistanis are not vilified for the fact that their government is, as we speak, expelling thousands of refugees, mostly women, back to Afghanistan. Why does the perception of Jews as aggressors create deep unease in many? Is it that Jews are considered white, powerful and able to defend themselves? Or is the idea of the #Jew as the shifty, duplicitous outsider also powering a rhetoric across a society which blithely ignores history, reducing a multilayered human tragedy into a simplistic campaign of good versus evil?"
OPINION: Mike Johnson spent much of his legal career defending the First Amendment — but only for #Christians. His theory seems to be, “the First Amendment for me but not for thee,” argues law professor Kimberly Wehle.
"The faith-based approach... can turn off those it is intended to help and may be less effective than evidence-based secular treatment...
Some organizations discriminate, hiring only self-avowed #Christians (which faith-based organizations can legally do) while excluding #LGBTQ+ applicants regardless of qualifications; others refuse to treat #queer victims altogether."
"Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it."
The only group you regularly hear about molesting kid is Church officials, particularly Youth Pastors.
No queer person would tell a child who they are, or who they should be. Being LGBTQ is all about people declaring their own Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity. But once someone does, the entire community celebrates it.
@bacchus1234
What is even MORE unfathomable is how many (alleged) "#Christians" not only fall for it, but swoon over what once would have been condemned as BLATANT #Blasphemy.