Jesus was a socialist. Maybe they should switch religions

…Trump had transformed the political landscape in the U.S. to the point where some Christian conservatives are openly denouncing a central doctrine of their religion as being too "weak" and "liberal" for their liking.

Trump didn’t transform shit. His views are as old as conservatism. Maybe there was a lull in speaking out about them from about 1975-2001, but they didn’t go away. Trump literally just stumbled ass-first into a convenient landscape with his more plainly outspoken bigotry and hate.

To attribute all of this to the last 6-8 years is beyond stupid and misses the entire problem.

And if these people can’t see that, their blind spot to hatred is so big that they can’t see it until someone screams it in their face. Yeah, it’s great someone in the evangelical community is speaking out, but it’s too little way too late. The fascist ideology has firmly rooted its way into American life over the last 30 years. Now that that tree is bearing fruit and it’s falling on people’s heads, speaking out now is like trying to cut down that tree with pruning shears. You assholes that fostered this for so long needed to cut it off way sooner.

"now"

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

And when Jesus was asked what the greatest of the commandments was:

"The most important one is this: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these”

yep, Jesus really was a liberal hippy cuck

They'll just write a Murican Bible with guns and pickup trucks.

This is the apotheosis of Reagan's cynical exploitation of Evangelical voters. They were always going to end up rejecting the very deity they claimed to follow as the culmination of their path astray.

Like, as soon as "Christians" started voting to cut social welfare programs and programs to help children, they were on the road to apostasy (in their religious framework).

Conservative Christians praise Jesus and follow the example of God. Liberal Christians praise God and follow the example of Jesus. One judges, the other forgives. One smites, the other saves. One says "praise me", the other literally says not to worship him but to follow his example.

In my experience they have been doing this for at least 30 years.

"When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis."

Half this story is about the idiot SBC constituency. The other half is about top SBC officials who have somehow come to believe that the teachings of Jesus were anything but subversive to begin with.

I've said it before, but, (assuming he existed at all) Jesus was a brown-skinned non-English-speaking Palestinian Jew who healed the sick and fed the poor (and didn't charge money for either thing) and encouraged his followers to do the same, supported paying taxes, and showed open contempt for wealth and the wealthy.

If only he had also been openly gay he would be every single thing modern Christians hate.

I decided that I couldn’t be part of a hypocritical* institution like the church in 2002! I loved the teachings but i saw none of them within the parishioners themselves, so i left to find my own way.

I read that there's a group making a new version of the Bible that takes out all the "woke" stuff.

"the monster we made is acting monstrous"

So they only follow the old testament? Isn't there already a word for that?

Tim Keller wrote about this in 2018 and it still rings true. Christians dont get to choose a side.