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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2023 18:19:35 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 27, 2023 20:02:27 GMT
MAGA evangelicals' 'desire for doom' explored by journalist Story by Brad Reed www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/maga-evangelicals-desire-for-doom-explored-by-journalist/ar-AA1m73N9Many American evangelical Christians have taken on an apocalyptic view of the world in which they see former President Donald Trump as their sole savior against demonic forces, according to journalist Tim Alberta. In an interview with New York Times columnist Jame Coaston, Alberta discusses how evangelicals came to rationalize designating Trump as their savior despite his decades of documented un-Christian behavior. In reading Alberta's work, Coaston said she was struck by how much the evangelicals he covers have a "desire for doom" in which the end of the world brings about a final reckoning between the forces of good and evil. "I think when you spend so much time swimming in these waters of ‘The end is near, they’re coming for us, brace yourself for this collision between the forces of good and evil,’ you actually start to not only anticipate it, but you start to look forward to it," Alberta explained. He then cited the temporary closure of churches during the novel coronavirus pandemic that fed into evangelicals' belief that there were sinister forces at work intent on blocking their ability to worship rather than a generational health emergency that caused the deaths of more than one million of their fellow American citizens. "When Gavin Newsom says, 'Hey, we’re shutting down houses of worship as a public health measure for a few weeks here,' suddenly it was, I think for so many of these people, it was like the prophecy was being fulfilled," Alberta explains.
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2024 0:43:23 GMT
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2024 16:16:54 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 15, 2024 13:34:21 GMT
Religious moderates tend to imagine that there is some bright line of separation between extremist and moderate religion. But there isn't. Scripture itself remains a perpetual engine of extremism: because, while “He” may be many things, the God of the Bible and the Qur'an is not a moderate. Reading scripture more closely, one does not find reasons to be a religious moderate; one finds reasons to be a proper religious lunatic--to fear the fires of hell, to despise nonbelievers, to persecute homosexuals etc. Of course, anyone can cherry-pick scripture and find reasons to love his neighbor and to turn the other cheek. But the more fully a person grants credence to these books, the more he will be convinced that infidels, heretics, and apostates deserve to be smashed to atoms in God's loving machinery of justice. Religious moderates invariably claim to be more "sophisticated" than religious fundamentalists (and atheists). But how does one become a sophisticated believer? By acknowledging just how dubious many of the claims of scripture are, and thereafter reading it selectively, bowdlerizing it if need be, and allowing its assertions about reality to be continually trumped by fresh insights: • The world isn't 6,000 years old. • I should take my child to a neurologist and not to an exorcist. • I can't beat my slaves. I can't even own slaves. There is a pattern here, and it is undeniable. Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit that the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings? -Sam Harris, 2007. “Letter to a Christian Nation”
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2024 21:00:17 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2024 20:23:42 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2024 20:24:46 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2024 21:02:12 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 16:43:21 GMT
Christian Love & Peace - Trump winning and causing a civil war would be 'worth it': evangelical preacher www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-winning-and-causing-a-civil-war-would-be-worth-it-evangelical-preacher/ar-BB1i3r4RWhatever it takes to return Trump back to 1600 Pennsylvania — even if it meant a civil war — would be "worth it," according to one religious leader. "I've actually had people say that if Trump was to be elected if we got a conservative Congress, that they fear that we would have another civil war," Andrew Wommack, a TV evangelical preacher, said during an episode of his "Truth & Liberty" show earlier this week, and first reported by Newsweek. "And you know what? I don't want a civil war, I don't know anybody that does, but would it be worth it? To turn this nation back? I believe it would." Wommack is president of the Truth & Liberty Coalition, described online as an organization that seeks to "educate, unify, and mobilize believers to impact culture and effect godly change on important social issues." As Nov. 5 creeps closer for the country to head to the polls and vote for the next president, the topic of another civil war appears to be growing. "The Civil War has never really left American politics — it just seems to have exploded in this moment,” Tim Galsworthy, a historian at Bishop Grosseteste University told The Washington Post. “When the U.S. is divided, the Civil War becomes that great reference point, because it’s the ultimate moment of division.” About 620,000 soldiers from both the Union and the Confederacy perished in the Civil War dating from 1861 to 1865.
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 16:47:10 GMT
Christian Love & Peace - Trump winning and causing a civil war would be 'worth it': evangelical preacher www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-winning-and-causing-a-civil-war-would-be-worth-it-evangelical-preacher/ar-BB1i3r4RWhatever it takes to return Trump back to 1600 Pennsylvania — even if it meant a civil war — would be "worth it," according to one religious leader. "I've actually had people say that if Trump was to be elected if we got a conservative Congress, that they fear that we would have another civil war," Andrew Wommack, a TV evangelical preacher, said during an episode of his "Truth & Liberty" show earlier this week, and first reported by Newsweek. "And you know what? I don't want a civil war, I don't know anybody that does, but would it be worth it? To turn this nation back? I believe it would." Wommack is president of the Truth & Liberty Coalition, described online as an organization that seeks to "educate, unify, and mobilize believers to impact culture and effect godly change on important social issues." As Nov. 5 creeps closer for the country to head to the polls and vote for the next president, the topic of another civil war appears to be growing. "The Civil War has never really left American politics — it just seems to have exploded in this moment,” Tim Galsworthy, a historian at Bishop Grosseteste University told The Washington Post. “When the U.S. is divided, the Civil War becomes that great reference point, because it’s the ultimate moment of division.” About 620,000 soldiers from both the Union and the Confederacy perished in the Civil War dating from 1861 to 1865. How fucked up can you get? Seriously.
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2024 20:49:43 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2024 21:56:48 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2024 22:21:26 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2024 1:57:08 GMT
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