White evangelical denoms are self-destructing while their leaders & members demonstrate a near complete lack of self-awareness about the damage the past six years has done to their witness not only outside the church, but in their own families.
https://twitter.com/jjmann17/status/1410746511722389510
Policing & denigrating celibate gay people who are already weary is not helping. People who saw respected leaders stay silent about racism & the dangers of Trumpism, Christian Nationalism & conspiracy theories are now wondering what else their elders got wrong.
Many among the younger Gen Xer, Millennials, & Gen Z are already wary of traditional Christian sexual ethics because the fruit of purity culture has been so abysmal, the misogyny & homophobia evil, & and the helpful support & training for chastity nearly non-existent.
They have seen their elders act foolishly with no concern for truth or the harm to their neighbors that they have either empowered or directly inflicted. Quite understandably, many decide that they do not want to be like their parents or church leaders.
The fruit is not good, and they rightly reject it. If they reject traditional Christian teaching and practice along the way, their former leaders & church communities don't get to be shocked. They are largely to blame.
If they aren't cleaning up house, repenting, and embodying the character and love of Jesus, they don't get to cast themselves as persecuted martyrs whose Light is hated by outside Dark forces.
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