Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching—‘turn the other cheek’—[and] to have someone come up after to say, ‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?’" Moore said.
“When the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ’ … The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,” he added.
what has millennia of the “no true christian!!!” arguing accomplished?
if someone calls themself a “christian” then that’s what they are, and they’re using the same stone age book of tall tales to argue why they’re the only true christians
No, seriously, there’s been a shift in the way the people use the word evangelical. I’ll have to dig it up, but I saw a street interview recently where a reporter person is interrogating a man identifying as an evangelical who when prodded on the teachings of Jesus responded with “I don’t believe in all that Jesus stuff, I’m an atheist”. Apparently a lot of people are identifying as evangelicals as a political identity, not as a religious identity. Evangelicals literally are no longer Christians anymore.
what has millennia of the “no true christian!!!” arguing accomplished?
I mean, not much, but rejecting the teachings of Jesus is still literally heresy. If we are to have a useful definition of the word “Christian,” it kinda has to include believing in the word of Christ.
lol according to whom? “true” chrsitians? the ones who are the self-proclaimed “authority” on what that means, and what anything jesus supposedly said means?
nope. “christian” is literally anyone who calls themself christian
If someone tells everyone he knows he is a man, he is a man even if he doesn’t seem like a man sometimes. Same with Christians. It is really annoying when they don’t seem to follow many Christian teachings but they are still Christian.
IMO anyway.
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706
Some people still think evangelicals are christians apparently.
what has millennia of the “no true christian!!!” arguing accomplished?
if someone calls themself a “christian” then that’s what they are, and they’re using the same stone age book of tall tales to argue why they’re the only true christians
fuck religion altogether, i say
No, seriously, there’s been a shift in the way the people use the word evangelical. I’ll have to dig it up, but I saw a street interview recently where a reporter person is interrogating a man identifying as an evangelical who when prodded on the teachings of Jesus responded with “I don’t believe in all that Jesus stuff, I’m an atheist”. Apparently a lot of people are identifying as evangelicals as a political identity, not as a religious identity. Evangelicals literally are no longer Christians anymore.
TIL
i guess i shouldn’t be surprised that right-wingers have yet again redefined the human capacity for being paralyzingly stupid
I mean, not much, but rejecting the teachings of Jesus is still literally heresy. If we are to have a useful definition of the word “Christian,” it kinda has to include believing in the word of Christ.
lol according to whom? “true” chrsitians? the ones who are the self-proclaimed “authority” on what that means, and what anything jesus supposedly said means?
nope. “christian” is literally anyone who calls themself christian
If someone tells everyone he knows he is a man, he is a man even if he doesn’t seem like a man sometimes. Same with Christians. It is really annoying when they don’t seem to follow many Christian teachings but they are still Christian. IMO anyway.