Thread by @ZachWLambert

A quick thread about the devastating affects of white evangelical fear-mongering. It is severely damaging the witness of the Church and causing people immense pain.

I just got off the phone with an amazingly kind and loving member of our church. She was in tears...

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She helped with Operation Christmas Child awhile back and was subsequently added (without consent) to Franklin Graham's email list.

Lately she has been inundated with fear-mongering emails about how all the "dangerous threats to our nation" and to "life as we know it."

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The "Secular Left" is going to fire people for "using the wrong name or pronouns" and force churches to "hire people hostile to its deeply held beliefs" and strip accreditation from schools that "do not satisfy the demands of the secular Left" and more.

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She cried on the phone with me. She said, "I know not all of this is true, Zach, but I get so many of these that it's become impossible not to be afraid."

We spent half an hour talking and praying together. She felt better by the end, but honestly, I didn't.

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I vacillate between feeling hurt and angry as I watch this garbage happen over and over again.

And you know what gets me more than anything? Most of these fear-mongering emails include requests for money.

“Chip in now and help save our nation!” What a godless grift.

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I don’t have all the answers. I just wish people who called themselves Christians would spend less time stoking fear and more time loving their neighbor.

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear."

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