Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h…

  • nicetriangle
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    4910 months ago

    These people are literally making it illegal to feed the homeless in places like Texas right now.

    IDK how anybody involved doesn’t look in the mirror on Sunday before church and not connect the fucking dots. Just ridiculous.

    • apemint
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      2210 months ago

      Can you imagine the sheer weight of cognitive dissonance they would experience if it their mind wasn’t slathered with industrial-grade denial?

    • quirzle
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      These people are literally making it illegal to feed the homeless in places like Texas right now.

      Even without the jesus stuff, how is the party of “limited government” and “rights of the people” going to tell me who I can/cannot give the last few slices of my pizza to while keeping straight faces?

      • nicetriangle
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        610 months ago

        their stance on any issue is like a quantum particle or some shit. just by observing it you change its position.

  • @o0joshua0o
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    3210 months ago

    Evangelicals really need to ask themselves: "Are we the baddies?

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      They have been for decades. The “moral majority” was about the time that they started to lean onto being shitty, and they’ve only gotten worse/more hateful since then.

      Seems like evangelicalism became about consolidating power decades ago, and Jesus was just window dressing.

    • MonsieurHedge
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      Christians have been the single most evil organization on the entire planet for hundreds of years, only briefly eclipsed by Adolf Hitler. Christians basically invented the systemic genocide.

      They know they’re “the baddies” and revel in it. Their God is an awesome God, and you will obey without question or die.

      • @madcaesar
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        Hitler and the catholic church were intertwined, there is no need to distinguish.

    • StarServal
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      They’ve even got the skull motif going with the Punisher logo.

      • FreeBooteR69
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        310 months ago

        I resent that, they don’t get to steal a great logo like that, fuck them.

  • LennethBright
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    2910 months ago

    Of course it’s causing problems. For far too long the right talking points have been at odds with the very teachings they claim to support.

    • Ganondorf
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      1110 months ago

      Modern republicans would shoot Jesus dead if given the opportunity.

  • falsem
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    2710 months ago

    “Jesus was weak! We need a strong religious leader, like Satan!”

  • @[email protected]
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    multiple pastors had told him disturbing stories about their congregants being upset when they read from the famous “Sermon on the Mount”

    How do you get to be a Christian, going to church presumably often, and not hear about the sermon on the Mount or “turning the other cheek”??? How does that happen??? Its so core to Christianity that its taught worldwide, people disagree on whether Mary was ascended or whether you should pray to icons, but the sermon is one of the few things everyone knows about. Or so I thought??

    “Our father who art in heaven” is a prayer uniting across all denominations!

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      How do you get to be a Christian, going to church presumably often, and not hear about the sermon on the Mount or “turning the other cheek”

      Good question. On the other hand, many things considered to be “Christian” in the US are detrimental to what Jesus has taught humanity. I know that and I’m not even a Christian.

      https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 4:23-25&version=NIV

      versus

      https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2023-08-06/up-close-look-at-gov-greg-abbotts-floating-wall-in-the-rio-grande

      They call themselves Christian but practically do the opposite of what Jesus has said.

      • @[email protected]
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        Well them not even knowing what their religion teaches would certainly make it plausible for them to act in direct contradiction to what their supposed beliefs are.

        For a lot of christians it’s however the dissociation of the “person in the news” from the rest of humanity. People in the news are often only seen as a prop within the story, not an actual living, shitting, eating, sexual human being with a biological ancestry. This phenomenon is obvious in celebrity news or how people react very harshly when they feel The Person In The News is bad. I think this dissociation hinders a lot of people of making the connection with their values of “loving, caring, compassionate” to The Person In The News.

        So they don’t see the contradiction between Mat 25:36-40

        I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

        “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

        “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

        and “Fortress Europe! Enforce our borders by any means necessary!”

        Which is why representation of minorities is so crucial. It humanifies them to people who only read about them in the news.

        • @Got_Bent
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          That least of these verse is a guaranteed treasure trove of hateful, sometimes violent responses if you throw it out on something like yahoo comments.

          I find it both hilarious in its predictability and disheartening in the human nature those responses illustrate.

    • @[email protected]
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      810 months ago

      Because they went to the churches of these mentioned supply side televangelists, and they have never read the bible themselves.

  • xc2215x
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    1010 months ago

    Not surprising, they would hate the real Jesus Christ.

  • Hello_there
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    410 months ago

    Look up prosperity gospel if you want more evidence of evangelical craziness.

  • yip-bonk
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    210 months ago

    Turn off my ad blocker, rawstory? No. I don’t think I will.