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John Pavlovitz: Christians Who Don't Want to Feed People--Aren't Jesus Christians
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/christians-who-dont-want-to-feedWell, we’re in the “Jesus didn’t say we should feed people” portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised, as the Conservative Church has had one foot in Hell and one on a banana peel since it rubber-stamped a sexual predator to our highest office a decade ago.
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In the face of 41 million people already living with food scarcity being pushed further toward the precipice edge by the loss of SNAP, my social media feed and inbox are both crammed with an unsettling jumble of performative sermonizing, snarling outrage, and insult-to-injury mockery from people who want to declare themselves Jesus followers, while fiercely, unrelentingly opposing the entirety of his life and work.
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Look, MAGA religious people can post all the Scriptures they want, they can plaster their feeds with Charlie Kirk memes, and they can proselytize till the cows come home or until Jesus comes back. Still, they can’t escape the reality that the elemental, compassionate heart of Christ’s work was the tangible love of the people in his path. Anything that works to disobey that is straight-up heresy and spiritual rebellion.
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I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised, as the Conservative Church has had one foot in Hell and one on a banana peel since it rubber-stamped a sexual predator to our highest office a decade ago.
-snip-
In the face of 41 million people already living with food scarcity being pushed further toward the precipice edge by the loss of SNAP, my social media feed and inbox are both crammed with an unsettling jumble of performative sermonizing, snarling outrage, and insult-to-injury mockery from people who want to declare themselves Jesus followers, while fiercely, unrelentingly opposing the entirety of his life and work.
-snip-
Look, MAGA religious people can post all the Scriptures they want, they can plaster their feeds with Charlie Kirk memes, and they can proselytize till the cows come home or until Jesus comes back. Still, they can’t escape the reality that the elemental, compassionate heart of Christ’s work was the tangible love of the people in his path. Anything that works to disobey that is straight-up heresy and spiritual rebellion.
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