The Far Trumpian Right is making a mockery of Conservative Christianity

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/11/failing-to-speak-truth-to-power.html

The intrusion of secular, extremist, right wing politics into some of America's Christian churches has caused apostasy. That's exactly right, many conservative churches are apostate, because they've allowed right wing politics to change the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they've thrown Jesus under the bus. They no longer preach and teach a gospel of redemption by grace through faith in Christ, they teach redemption by voting for the person they've declared to be right.

The traveling band wagon called "Re-awaken America Tour" is making a mockery of conservative Christianity. It appears intended to do so. The involvement of both Eric Trump and Don Jr., who spend their time trying to convince Christians that all of this "turn the other cheek" and "love your enemies" stuff preached by Jesus won't get you any worldly benefits, makes the whole think a big tragedy. Tragic, because Christians actually show up for this clown show and believe the lies it is spreading.

But this is really an epidemic that is doing great damage to the testimony of the churches and pastors who are involved in it. There was a ten minute discussion on Scarborough Country on MSNBC this morning about how those Christians who are aligned with extremist right wing politics have lost their identity as Christians, the virtues spoken of in the scripture are no longer visible in their actions. Joe Scarborough brings to the table a background of experience in the Baptist faith tradition as an Evangelical himself, from a religious perspective, anyway.

[vlyons]

1. Don't see any of the governing bodies of the various denominations

calling them out as apostates.

[lees1975]

4. Baptist News Global is a media outlet which represents and is supported by

a couple of Baptist groups, the Baptist General Association of Virginia and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. There is no "governing body" among most Baptists, but leadership of both have been active in calling out the apostasy, including the article I linked.

Quakers generally don't align their meetings with politics and there's also not a governing body, but I've been associated with a meeting for a while now and outside the meeting, discussions run along more progressive Democratic lines, and there's involvement with a lot of progressive activism. I wouldn't be able to name a member of the group, or the greater fellowship to which it belongs, who isn't a progressive, far left Democrat.

These are churches and denominations for whom keeping politics separate from the church is sacred doctrine, so there's not a lot of public statements by leaders on the record, though I think most of the African American Baptist denominations, representing the second largest group of Baptists in the US, have been speaking out. The United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ have leaders who have gone on record condemning multiple Trumpism fallacies, including January 6th, his ban on Muslim immigration, his COVID policy and his election fraud lies. And there is a group that is showing up to every "Re-awaken America" rally and publicly condemning the heresy.

https://wordandway.org/2022/11/05/ministers-condemn-reawaken-americas-branson-arrival/

And of course, you are always welcome to read and share with your conservative Evangelical friends on social media "[link:http://signalpress.blogspot.com|]

And there's also this Major Christian Leaders Asked January 6th Committee to Investigate Christian Nationalism

[Effete Snob]

2. Nonsense - it was a mockery long before Trump

[hatrack]

3. Yes, Trump gave them a reason to daub themselves in shit and self-immolate . . .

. . . just in case any doubt had remained.

[Skittles]

5. "conservative christianity" has always been bullshit

since when would Jesus have approved of ANYTHING repukes endorse