John Pavlovitz: Christians Who Don't Want to Feed People--Aren't Jesus Christians

[highplainsdem]

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/christians-who-dont-want-to-feed

Well, 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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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Tell magas to look up Matthew 25:40-43 on their smart phones while you wait for them to read it out loud. . nt

[efhmc]

2. I have been "preaching" this for years. Fugelsang book, "The Separation of Church and Hate" shows it very well.

[MineralMan]

3. For many, Jesus Christ is irrelevant to their Christianity.

Which has always seemed strange to me. I first noticed it when I was about 12 years old and still going to Sunday school at the Presbyterian church in my little town. I asked questions about what I thought were odd behaviors when compared to the stories about Jesus. I was told that I was too young to understand.

Oh, I understood just fine. When I was about 18, I gave up Christianity for Lent one year. It is still the same. Preaching love for one's neighbors while driving them out of your town or nation just doesn't seem like what that religion is really about. Say what you will, but that's just how it is.

[surfered]

4. Nailed it!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. "no true scotsman"

[lame54]

6. They're Crist-uns

[sakabatou]

7. MAGAts: Jesus was woke! He's awful!

[SamuelTheThird]

8. I think this is the no true scotsman fallacy

There is something twisted in the dna of christianity that helps proliferate all the manifestations we've seen of it over 20 centuries.

Slaves, obey your masters!

[Blue Full Moon]

9. Jesus will say "I never knew you."

[3catwoman3]

10. The pretzel-rationale that disgusts me the most is the claim that Trump was chosen by Gawd...

...because "...sometimes God chooses flawed people to get His work done." (probable paraphrase)

What complete and utter BULLSHIT!