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Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

...did the pastor just wake from a 6 year coma?

'Christians' switched to Cult-45 the day Trump entered into politics.

[-] LNSY@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

I grew up fundamentalist, and they had abandoned his teachings in the 80’s in service to Emperor Reagan.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I mean, really, when did Christians ever follow Jesus' teachings considering how many people were converted by the sword...

[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

It'll be the ones you don't hear about, for example my grandparents who are some of the kindest, most compassionate people you'd meet. They hosted refugees, consistently voted progressive, and changed church when their previous one started being more anti-LGBT. There's just no headlines in Christians actually acting like Christians.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago

Because they're actually following the teachings of the Bible especially the notes on the hypocrites. They just do good, they don't talk about doing good in places where people will hear them.

Good on them :)

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

they need to break out a whip and turn over some tables!

[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think they're a bit past those days!

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

If my kin are anything to go by, youre never too old to kickass and take names. Hell my great grandfather won his first bout against death, lost the second though.

[-] havokdj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wasn't alive during the crusades, but I think that would be a pretty good starting place.

[-] LNSY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I would say when Constantine and Pope Sylvester threw in together

The leopard is still hungry

[-] el_twitto@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Christians have ignored the teachings of Jesus from the start. Just one example: You cannot serve God and money. Matthew 6:24. I think Jesus was a communist who would probably also be crucified today by the people who proclaim to be Christians.

[-] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Paul derailed the Church right out of the gate. Here's a guy who has had an absurd amount of control over the fate of Christianity who never met Christ, and who advocates principles that directly contradict Christ's own teachings while being very similar to the teaching of the Jewish temple Paul previously held power in as a Pharisee. Paul took Christ's teachings and merged them into a contemptible, incoherent hybrid of Christ's message and the Jewish law-focused faith, brought full circle back into a religious bureaucracy by the Roman Catholics.

[-] BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Total agreement. His message was revolutionary.

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