It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take anything evangelicals say seriously.
They talk about personal integrity and morals and being gentle and letting your speech be gracious. Yet, they support a leader who is and does the exact opposite. And then proceed to mimic him.
Even when I was still drinking the Jesus juice a decade ago I could see this in my church. It’s the main reason I left. Sermons would preach one thing, which the congregation would agree with, but then immediately after I would hear people gossiping about how Marsha has a gay son so she’s going to hell, or Tom’s daughter got pregnant out of wedlock so they were shunning them. I grew up with several of these peoples kids and knew for a fact they were nowhere close to saints. Rampant. Hypocrisy. It’s wild that they’re so willfully ignorant. It’s all just projection of their own guilt.
That’s one of the things that really accelerated my deconstruction. Even if you aren’t a fundigelical, how can you sit back and tolerate these people representing you? You might be able to pontificate amongst yourselves why they’re not Real Christians™, but the rest of the world isn’t given to that level of pedantry.
They bear your name and claim to represent your god. To any reasonable person, both kinds are still Christians.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take anything evangelicals say seriously.
They talk about personal integrity and morals and being gentle and letting your speech be gracious. Yet, they support a leader who is and does the exact opposite. And then proceed to mimic him.
Way to trash your own witness.
Even when I was still drinking the Jesus juice a decade ago I could see this in my church. It’s the main reason I left. Sermons would preach one thing, which the congregation would agree with, but then immediately after I would hear people gossiping about how Marsha has a gay son so she’s going to hell, or Tom’s daughter got pregnant out of wedlock so they were shunning them. I grew up with several of these peoples kids and knew for a fact they were nowhere close to saints. Rampant. Hypocrisy. It’s wild that they’re so willfully ignorant. It’s all just projection of their own guilt.
That’s one of the things that really accelerated my deconstruction. Even if you aren’t a fundigelical, how can you sit back and tolerate these people representing you? You might be able to pontificate amongst yourselves why they’re not Real Christians™, but the rest of the world isn’t given to that level of pedantry.
They bear your name and claim to represent your god. To any reasonable person, both kinds are still Christians.