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Colorado passed a law to protect trans people. These pastors repeatedly lied about it.
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Right-leaning Christians: Our rights are important!
Left-leaning Christians: I agree!
Right-leaning Christians: Especially the right to be shitty to people!
Left-leaning Christians: Wait, what?
Left leaning Christians are still Christians and Christians are all awful.
Kind of a shitty thing to say considering how many Christians there are attending inclusive churches while quietly living a good life. There's Christians out there doing more good for the world than both of us combined.
Believe whatever you need to.
Well meaning religious institutions are rare, and left-wing Christians are deconstructing in droves (or taking a very atheist interpretation of Christianity) but non-awful Christians do exist.
White Christion nationalists on the other hand...
What's that saying about 1 Nazi sitting at a table with 9 other non Nazis?
There was an interesting comment I saw earlier today where a Texas pastor mentioned how he doesn’t like to use the word “Christian” any more because it’s come to mean something that is the polar opposite of what Jesus taught. Jesus was a humanist. I can imagine him, Buddha, and Carl Sagan being very good friends.
My point is, you are so preoccupied with labels that the actual ideals and behavior aren’t part of your equation. Therefore your analogy is unrelated to the reality.
As Frederick Douglass put it, American Christianity (or what we today call “Christian Nationalism”) is not Christian. I’d even call it decidedly antichrist.
I'm curious... do you think it's more likely that the historical jesus was :
a) resurrected Lazarus and himself from the dead, and gave the power to raise others from the dead to his followers, or
b) was a charlatan faking all that for money and attention?
(Fun Fact they don't teach in Sunday School: the gospels weren't written by anyone who actually knew him. Probably not even by people that spoke the same language.)
If there was a historical Jesus, he was likely a wandering rabbi whose life and actions have been heavily mythologized. Personally, I like the idea that Lazarus was unconscious - maybe in a coma - and when Jesus showed up he noticed immediately and berated everyone for being idiots.