John ShirleyAug 12, 2023

Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting JESUS as TOO LIBERAL (not a joke! Not The Onion!)

"Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount and...'Where did you get those liberal talking points?'"

"When the pastor would say, 'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ' ... The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore.' "When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, we're in a crisis."
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting ‘Liberal’ Teachings of Jesus

Christian devotees of former President Donald Trump are denouncing Bible verses attributed to Jesus as “weak,“ according to an evangelical leader.

Newsweek
Show threadJohn ShirleyAug 12, 2023
Yes they DO think Jesus is too woke. Not all evangelicals take this attitude. But there's a MAGA faction of Christians. Some are saying, "We need to get more Old Testament"--others say no, because that's so...Jewish
Show threadPeter Paaske Juul
@JohnShirley2023 look, the whole "sell all your stuff, give the money to the poor, then come follow me" was clearly an ALLEGORY for... Something. It probably means "hire the poor and give them a little money for their work. But not too much. Can't have them become rich. They are just gonna love money, and that is a root of all evil."
Aug 12, 2023 at 8:21pmWeb
Show threadAdrian J. ChungAug 13, 2023

@Rockbear @JohnShirley2023
The evangelicals abandoned christian vows of poverty centuries ago. They were eventually superseded by the prosperity gospel

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2013/may/29/prosperity-gospel-mockery-christianity

The prosperity gospel makes a mockery of Christianity

Andrew Brown: Preachers who get rich by saying success is a mark of divine favour go against everything Jesus taught – maybe he had a point

The Guardian
Show threadPeter Paaske JuulAug 13, 2023

@ajc418 @JohnShirley2023 indeed. And while the capitalism-ization of church has been a great success for some, the parishioners has experienced exactly what workers everywhere has experienced. The lie "You too can be a Billionaire, if you work really hard." Has been transformed into "you too can be a blessed and become a billionaire, if you pray and give really hard."

It was basically the same scam when kings and bishops talked people into going to war "for God". (1/2)

Show threadPeter Paaske JuulAug 13, 2023

@ajc418 @JohnShirley2023 It saddens me that this sort of "Christianity" from the evangelical right has gained so much traction that few even know of the evangelical left, of Christian socialism, of Liberation Theology and similar movements.

But one may suspect that the loud evangelicals of this era would rather forget about Martin Luther King Jr. et al...
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