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Notice how it’s always “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the verses about welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, not charging interest, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, or loving our neighbors.

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

If you are gutting healthcare and food assistance for millions of Americans, you are absolutely not “pro life.”

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the elderly on social security they paid into to be called a “parasite,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

“It is my purpose,” Churchill wrote in The Gathering Storm, “first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented [and] how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

submitted 31 days ago • 45 comments

We are actually living in a time where some Christians see mercy as offensive, empathy as a sin, and diversity, equity, and inclusion as a threat. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” -Isaiah 5:20 Lord, have mercy.

submitted 36 days ago • 33 comments

1/ Remember This: Trump would not be in office if it were not for the MAGA Christen, CN adherents, and numerous Christian leaders. Everything you see happening in America, RIGHT NOW ... the chaos, pain, and cruelty ... is what a "Christian nation" looks like. It's the fruit of American Christendom.

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Christians denouncing empathy as sinful are using religion to justify their cruelty.

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed, making widows their prey and robbing the orphan.” -Isaiah 10:1-2

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

If it’s not good news to the poor, the imprisoned, and the oppressed, then it’s not what Jesus is anointed to do, and thus not truly Christian—no matter how hard some may try to convince us that it’s “biblical.”

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

A version of Christianity that tramples the poor and marginalized in favor of the rich and powerful is a religion completely at odds with the teachings of Jesus.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than using all cosmic and political power to force the world to obey him will forever be the greatest critique of any Christian movement that seeks to secure power in order to ensure that others conform to their will.

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

The more I study the gospel, the more I'm baffled at how we could see this foot washing, health restoring, sword disarming, patient listening, kind teaching, cross bearing Jesus and then somehow arrive at the conclusion that he is calling us to impose our worldview on others.

submitted 54 days ago • 10 comments

The kingdom of God does not and cannot come by the church making common cause with the Machiavellian politics of this world. The kingdom of God is something altogether other. The church must ask itself this question: What are we profited if we gain the political world but lose our Christian soul?

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submitted 75 days ago • 9 comments

Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

submitted 106 days ago • 9 comments

There is something so deeply hypocritical about claiming to follow Jesus who saved the world by laying down his life out of love for others then acting like the world can only be saved by forcing your own way and imposing your beliefs on others.

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Remember: in the gospels, Jesus got the most upset with those who use religion as a tool of oppression and self serving power. You don't see Jesus get upset with anyone for showing too much forgiveness, giving too much mercy, having too much generosity or loving others too much.

submitted 102 days ago • 14 comments

When we Christians become more concerned about being too empathetic and too compassionate than we are about being too judgmental and too severe, we need a grand reversal. Jesus’ harshest words in the gospels were directed towards the authoritarians, not the gentle or the meek.

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

Christianity should sound like, "my beliefs continue to deepen my love for others," not "the depth of my love for others is contingent on how deeply they conform to my beliefs."

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

When our theology and politics as Christians are completely preoccupied with how other people might be sinning rather than focusing on how our own sin contributes to the current problems of our world, that is when we know our religion is about control rather than redemption.

submitted 90 days ago • 7 comments

If our Christianity doesn’t result in us having greater compassion for others, it really has nothing to do with Jesus.

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

The only way to bring the about kingdom of God is to live it. You can’t force it, you can’t legislate it, you can only live it.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments