Well :-)?

 

Christian nationalism is thriving: Where is the religious left?

Told you two days ago...:-).

It's here.

"On the day of the horrific Uvalde, Texas school shooting, ultraconservative congresswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted: “It’s time for an American Revival. A revival of our country, church, and our mindset. The hard-working people of America have been abused for too long by our corrupt government, told what to think by our arrogant media, and led astray by our evil culture. It’s time.”"

First of all, she's not "ultraconservative", (political conservatives don't exist any more) she's a radical extremists and theres plenty of 'em to go around on both sides.

. Oh and it's time all right, time to stop this perversion (Americanization) of the gospel full stop.

“Our nation needs to take a serious look at the state of mental health today. Sometimes meds can be the problem. America is failing our youngest generations from decades of rejecting good moral values and teachings. We don’t need more gun control. We need to return to God.”

Somebody just has to tell these people, did they ever stop to think about the role of the policies they have supported throughout the years and the role that might have had in "the state of mental health today"? Do people not understand: "...Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty." You will either get it, or you wont. You can not FORCE the spirit of the lord on people, he gave them free will to make up their own minds. Maybe if more Christian behaved in ways that show who they are? More people will feel led to...Return to God. maybe? But this, "You have to be exactly like us, look like us, support the same political party as us, hold the same political positions as us is a bunch of worthless drivel that has been around for decades and is not supported with scripture. Don't think so? I'll use one metric to prove my point that this type of thinking is entirely wrong. Look at church attendance and what's happened to it. Declining for decades now. Maybe if people saw more Christians really acting like Christians instead of supporting a bunch of superfluous nonsense they'd be in your church pew? Maybe? Worth a shot? Why not give it a try? Things weren't always this polarized in this country and I'm telling ya when the blackouts start rolling and gas is $7 or $8 a gallon, how much are you gonna care about culture wars? I told my friend the other day, people better be appreciating the AC and their ice right now.

“Christian, Husband, Father, Papaw, Evangelist, Marine, NRA, ProLife, Patriot, VietVet, #PurpleHeart.”

Absolutely none of the adjectives in bold are required to believe in the blood of Christ shed for your sins. None.

"the “heartbreaking” shooting occurred because our society allows abortion: “When kids hear adults say that it’s ok to kill babies (abortion), then all respect for human lives is gone. #PrayersForUvalde.” 

(Abortion causes gun violence? Really? Talk about false teachers. I thought the 393 million guns in the country might have had a lil something more to do with it. 1/3 of all the civilian firearm's in the world are owned by citizens of the US. No other country has this problem. Other countries play violent video games, watch violent movies etc, and have access to abortions, we are the only country with this problem and the sheer numbers of firearms is the problem and it will not be solved ever, the country will be ripped to shreds before this issue ever gets worked on let alone resolved.

Yes I've owned guns and yes I will again. No I'm not saying go get them either just pointing out the fact that this country has always had a culture of gun violence it's practically in our DNA and the sheer numbers of them make us prone to the violence that were seeing. It will get worse not better as economic tensions rise so will the level of violence, count on it.)

"Second Amendment and pro-life policy"

(You do not have to support either to accept Christ blood shed for your sins and neither has anything to do with your salvation. This country has been fed a lie for 40+ years now and its time it stopped.)

"The U.S. Capitol insurrection, the Supreme Court’s unprecedented draft leak potentially reversing the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, and the lack of comprehensive gun reform may be linked to Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is the belief that God has destined America, like biblical Israel, for a pivotal role in the destiny of human history and that the nation will receive divine healing and blessing — or judgment — depending upon the measure of Americans’ obedience to what they perceive as God’s biblical laws and mandates.

(What people need to understand is all of this is a myth. It's not biblical in nature at all..."the belief that God has destined America, like biblical Israel, for a pivotal role in the destiny of human history". 

It's a pivotal role in the destiny of human history" alright, just not the one you thought it was going to be.

 Now, "the nation will receive divine healing and blessing — or judgment..." is a lot more in line with what is actually going on. Our judgement is flat out here, it is upon us right now in this moment, how in the world people cant understand that is simply beyond me.)

 "In the late 1990s, the young, charismatic Ralph Reed, the once executive director of the Christian Coalition, and others mobilized the Republican Party for a more Christian nation — with the notion that the devout, predominantly Christian morals are under attack in America in the face of a cluster of so-called cultural issues — gays, abortion, gambling, lack of school prayer — and that these deviations are destroying America from the inside out. They banked that these issues would rile up specific aspects of the Republican Party’s base, conflating them with other non-cultural topics such as tax cuts, deregulation, school vouchers, anti-immigration, and a fully rigid embrace of the Second Amendment’s perceived rights.

(Look at your country since the 90's. The merger of politics and faith is never a good idea. NEVER. You can go back to Constantine and Rome to make that point. Mixing politics and religion perverts and dilutes both. How anybody can do the required mental gymnastics to think that merging politics and religion was a bad thing back in Constantine's time but perfect for us here the last few decades? 

Really?)

"Thus, this “Christian” political agenda has worked to ensure that conservative judges are appointed to the federal judiciary, especially the U.S. Supreme Court. It also advocated for the resurrection of state’s rights to justify opposition to abortion, same-sex and transgender rights, the mistrust of immigrants (especially those who are nonwhite) and the exclusion of insufficiently religious Christians, Jews, Muslims, people of color and even those with no professed faith tradition from honest discussions. Trump was the champion of these causes and helped to achieve them. 

As a result, according to a recent Associated Press article, Christian nationalists have had success in this year’s Republican primaries."

(If you had grown in your faith and understood where we are ? You would know all of this was supposed to happen. Not that you shouldn't feel compelled to speak out against those things you object to, but that it was inevitable that this was the direction this country would go.)

"...despite more recent conventional thinking, the religious left has always had deep roots in American history, from the abolitionists to the Civil Rights Movement. 

"Christopher H. Evans, a professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University, says social gospel’s U.S history is typically “traced to the rise of late 19th-century urban industrialization immediately following the Civil War.” He continues: “Largely, but not exclusively, rooted in Protestant churches, the social gospel emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by the “Gilded Age” capitalism.” The philosophy led to hospitals serving the poor for decades."

"But now is the time for liberal denominations, churches and religious communities en masse to educate, train and morally wrestle with Christian nationalism. The religious left, which is also an interreligious and nonfaith reality, must insist that Christian nationalism is less about faith or religion and more about a social conservatism revolving around race, identity politics, immigration and revisionist teachings of American history."

(...now is the time for liberal denominations, churches and religious communities en masse to educate, train and morally wrestle with Christian nationalism..." 

Have, do, will.

"Christian nationalism is less about faith or religion and more about a social conservatism revolving around race, identity politics, immigration and revisionist teachings of American history."

Matthew 24:4

Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you."

Way To many of our brethren and sistern have fallen for it and the hour is getting late...)

"As the country and the world increasingly become more secular, it begs the question: Is this brand of Christianity partly responsible for the groundswell of repudiation pushing people away from the Christian community and Christian convictions? How many people leaving the church are doing so because of Christian nationalism? Where is the voice of the religious left?

(My argument is, It's here :-).

("Is this brand of Christianity partly responsible for the groundswell of repudiation pushing people away from the Christian community and Christian convictions? How many people leaving the church are doing so because of Christian nationalism?" 

Look at your church membership/attendance since the 90's and answer that question honestly. Then ask yourself this question, "What entity would want to drive people away from the church?" Especially right now at this age were living in? I know my answer to to those questions, what's yours? What's the first sign of the end of an age? Don't be deceived.)

"We need a bombastic counternarrative from the religious left..."

Like I said a few days ago...It's here.

Godspeed everybody.

I love you honey :-).

So much.