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John Shirley Aug 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

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Octorine Aug 12, 2023

@JohnShirley2023 There was a throwaway bit in a recent Neal Stephenson book about a neoprotestant movement who burned crosses to show their rejection for Jesus because he was too woke.

Didn't expect that bit to actually happen.

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Xenofact (he/him)

@octorine @JohnShirley2023 what's oft missed is they want an excuse to be terrible people in the form of a God. Christianity has been used as that excuse, despite its own contents.

Now they're feeling very edit-y on the consumer level