The main grounds for inaccuracy I see would be that the majority of influential Christian practice in the United States is so theologically murky that it's not useful to think of it as protestantism.
I mean, it being murky *is* protestantism, because protestantism is a broad brush. What unites protestantism is pretty much just salvation through belief and otherwise Not-Being-Catholic.
otherwise it's a bunch of ideological nitpicks between lutherans, episcopaleans, the unaligned crowd, etc
The point I'm making is that a lot of modern American Christian practice is almost entirely orthogonal to theology. Your average megachurch enjoyer wouldn't be able to keep up with this conversation, and wouldn't care to.
yeah sure, but there's a lot of other stuff in the NT that leads to thousands of years of disagreement on what exactly it all means that's not going to be resolved on bsky.
it's absolutely reductionist to go with "the entire message" and declare the faith of 100s of millions to be satanic
I suspect it’s supported even in the gospels. Obvious case—and particularly relevant for settler Protestantism, which seems the cause of the underlying animus here—is the case of the centurion
Jesus seems to love an armed public enemy (even to see virtue in him and to offer grace). It’s unsurprising that settler religion would de-emphasise this sort of thing, or even show real hostility to it.
Denial and taking up crosses might be interpreted many ways.
May i suggest Daniel berrigan, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Bishop Sheen, John Lewis, MLK.
Maybe we aren't talking about the same Christian experience.
he's saying, be prepared for trials and tribulations to follow the right and narrow path towards salvation. he is not literally telling his disciples to get crucified, nor to emulate empathy to the point of suicidal empathy.
Eh? you mean like, you want a sermon about it? Are you saying to me that Jesus is literally arguing for crucifixion for his disciples? You can go find a seminary and proffer that reading, and I think you will be politely asked out.
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otherwise it's a bunch of ideological nitpicks between lutherans, episcopaleans, the unaligned crowd, etc
it's absolutely reductionist to go with "the entire message" and declare the faith of 100s of millions to be satanic
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”
He literally says "get your own cross."
May i suggest Daniel berrigan, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Bishop Sheen, John Lewis, MLK.
Maybe we aren't talking about the same Christian experience.
Points for consistency.