White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You

[Arkansas Granny]

Dear White Evangelicals,

I need to tell you something: People have had it with you.

They’re done.

They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why:

They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.

For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity.

They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character—all without cause or evidence. They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/24/white-evangelicals-people/

[CousinIT]

1. Pavlovitz is awesome. n/t

[2Gingersnaps]

41. X1000

[onecaliberal]

2. Hear, hear!

[alwaysinasnit]

3. K&R Excellent post.

[Gore1FL]

4. We could add so much more from the 4+ years since he wrote this. nt

[certainot]

25. like how it's been discovered it's a heritable mental disorder exacerbated by wrong handed

masturbaion

[walkingman]

5. My sentiments exactly ☯

[Texin]

6. The "People" may be through with Evangelicals, but they're not through with us.

[japple]

7. Yep. They still have lots of pockets left to pick, lots of young children,

teens and women to abuse and they aren't going away any time soon.

[2naSalit]

36. A lot like a viral pandemic I've heard about.

[ancianita]

8. Evangelicals don't care. Evangelicals are not through with People.

They, like Rethugs in the House Judiciary Committee with Democrats right now as we speak, will pose reasonableness until the next time they can move on People to overturn precedent on 51% of America.

[nattyice]

10. They despise Jimmy Carter, yet love Donald Trump

[Probatim]

22. Riddle that one for me.

My in-laws are two of those people. Deacons in their church, choir members, hate Carter/love TFG.

My wife, who loves her parents but doesn't get it sometimes, wanted to buy one of Carter's books for her dad for xmas. I said don't, it won't go over well. She asked why not. I said, the old man watches fox news and will hate Carter.

She got him a different book but mentioned the Carter book - he was not quite seething in his comment. I sat quietly.

[certainot]

26. all about the certitude. authoritarians fear uncertainty and carter didn't. tfg had royal certitude

that comes from heavy duty wrong handed masturbation

[PXR-5]

11. Adding TFG as a good Christian and

Biden and Polosi as fake Catholics, deny them Communion.

My Aunt's church preaches they are a sham, and not Catholic.

[keithbvadu2]

29. Yet pedophile priests are worthy Catholics, protected by the church for many decades.

Yet pedophile priests are worthy Catholics, protected by the church for many decades.

[2naSalit]

37. And it ain't just the Catholics.

[oldsoftie]

44. Trump was probably the LEAST Christian President in history.

He mocked them and they didnt even know it

[Warpy]

12. I've been done with those sanctimonious assholes since I was ten

and I realized it was all play acting, that nobody really believed any of it or they'd act one hell of a lot better than they did.

It's not just white folks in megachurches true believer Catholics are at least as bad and sometimes worse, if only by familiarity when I was growing up. We know about Islamist and rabid Hindu assholes. May the lot of them find the hells they try to create for us.

I'm glad Millennials and Zoomers are taking a harder look at them than late Boomers and Gen X did, but I suppose Millennial Fever had something to do with that. The fever broke a long time ago, but some people just can't give up their entertainment every Sunday.

So I hope people really are done and don't get sucked back in when they have kids. Or if they do, they pick an old standard instead of a glitzy showbiz venue run by a guy with a pompadour.

I won't be here to see it, but I hope this current religious fervor spilling over and creating toxic politics is over soon, the architectural white elephants turned into concert venues where old rappers wheeze their way onto the stages the way old rockers do now.

Oh, there is something in a lot of people that seems to need a religion. I just think we can do better. We have to do better.

[progressoid]

23. Selective belief.

I know a few die hard fundy believers. When put on the spot, they suddenly forget the teachings of their Jesus. They always find a convenient "out".

I read somewhere that their numbers have declined in the last few years. Let's hope that trend continues.

[Warpy]

39. They will continue to decline

until about 2080, then there will be a centennial boomlet and pompadoured charlatans with capped teeth will once again experience lavishly positive cash flow. I don't know why numbers on an arbitrary calendar spook superstitious people, but they do.

There is no real discussion with them, either, unless you're their particular pompadoured fraud. Change the subject, walk away and if they tell you you're going to hell, do what I do, grab their hands and give them a two fisted Chamber of Commerce hearty handshake while saying :I heard god was dead but I hadn't realized you'd gotten his job. Congratulations!" I guarantee the harangue will end and the subject never broached again.

[progressoid]

40. Hahaha

[slightlv]

13. Reading thru the comments section

takes guts. Some of the comments are totally off the rails...

[Moostache]

14. The "what-about-ism" is strong with those people...

As is the racism and hate and total false information.
There is no arguing with them, their minds are gone - filled with talking points and incapable of reason.

[qwlauren35]

15. Amusing.

He preaches to the choir. I cannot imagine his words changing the minds of any white evangelicals.

[twodogsbarking]

16. Thou shalt not utter the truth.

[cilla4progress]

17. I wish I could publish

this in my local paper.

Thanks, Granny!



Oh and up to and especially including the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION!!!

[calimary]

18. Amen.

Amen.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. We need to start taxing their megachurches.

They're all just big businesses anyway, as they rent space for large events and run daycare facilities that compete with private small businesses.


KY............

[geretogo]

20. Speaking truth might get Granny a jail term . Putun agrees .

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. That would really be nice

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

24. Thank you for providing the link.

It is well worth the read.

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R for exposure of the two-faced hypocrites

[ck4829]

28. K&R

[YoshidaYui]

30. Yep

Done.

[sop]

31. "Pigmentation and party are your sole deities" pretty much describes the evangelicals I've known.

Most of them believed the extermination of Native Americans was justified by "Manifest Destiny," and the United States was destined by God to expand its dominion across the entire continent. Many southern christians believed that slavery was "an institution of God," using bible verses to sanctify the practice.

It's obvious America's conservative christian universities should teach their students CRT (Critical Religious Theory). It might open their eyes to the horrors perpetrated by their own churches. But, that would be too "woke" for them.

[BlueJac]

32. No kidding!

[RedSpartan]

33. Evangelicals are the American Taliban.

Sadly, they are winning.

[lees1975]

51. More than most people think.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/06/christian-dominion-theology-intersects.html

[The Jungle 1]

34. What I don't understand is why they don't understand.

That they are destroying Christianity. Church attendance is dropping like a rock.
In 2019, 34% of Americans attended a religious service at least once or twice a month. In 2020 31%. In 2021 28%.
You might want to open your eyes and accept that Americans do not like what you are selling. Your perversion of Christ's teachings is not being accepted and is moving quickly into history.

[SouthernDem4ever]

35. I defected to the church of the flying spaghetti monster

no hypocrites there.

[LiberalLovinLug]

47. So you say...but what sect?

Those that worship the handmade pasta monster with cream and fresh tomato?

Or the people's monster made of store bought dry spaghetti with jarred tomato sauce?

[SouthernDem4ever]

48. Depends on the season

If the tomatoes in my yard are ripened I can do the handmade pasta. Sometimes I get snubbed by the people in that sect as being inauthentic because I was caught with a box of store bought pasta one day.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. lol

[Roc2020]

38. Damning but true

[Pepsidog]

42. Great read. Also, anyone catch the MSNBC special report on why Latinos are increasingly voting for

republicans? Depressing and frightening to watch how contorted their views are. It’s right off Fox and social media crap about Democrats and communism and indoctrination of young school kids. We have a real problem speaking to the Latino community that is very diverse. We need to fix that problem ASAP!

[Handler]

43. Outstanding and well said

Growing up in Alabama (in the Bible Belt) was difficult at times because I figured out at a young age, the Preacher man was full of bs.

[lees1975]

45. Some are changing their core doctrinal beliefs if Trump said to do it.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-subversion-of-christian-church.html

[carpetbagger]

46. Covid was the end for me.

A divorce, and moving out of my bubble of a UCC church (Obama's denomination) to a small town helped, but hearing about "faith not fear" for two years while working at a nursing home and seeing the effects showed me the door.

My only regret is it's 50 miles to the closest Zen temple.

[electric_blue68]

50. Preach it! 👏👏🏽👏🏿