Thread by @lsanger

Much of the "woke" and "cancel" culture of the last seven years or so (it really started ramping up around 2014) is basically softening up the culture for an all-out attack on the #Bible and Christians. Just wait. It won't be pretty. | via startthis.org/?p=1265

I wish I was wrong, but I'm not.

Gay marriage? Totally unbiblical.

gotquestions.org/gay-marriage.h…

Women preachers? Well, let's just say that the people who endorse the practice are the same sort of people who are comfy with creative interpretations of large parts of the Bible.

biblestudytools.com/bible-study/to…

The Bible is full of verses that fail to condemn slavery. Slavery!

Christians can (and some often have to) explain. But pretty soon this is going to be a massive issue on which the Good Book will be attacked.

openbible.info/topics/slavery

For that matter, sorry, but...genocide. Yes, the Old Testament Lord God certainly seems to command genocide in many places. That in fact is how the Promise Land was to be secured.

Again, Christians (and Jews) can explain. But...yeah. Look out.

openbible.info/topics/genocide

Those Christians sure do seem to be intolerant to keep to themselves. It's because the Bible tells them to.

I'm telling you, this thing is a powder keg. The major trends of the last 40 years couldn't have been better constructed to dismantle the Bible.

openbible.info/topics/separat…

And look, beyond gay marriage, homosexuality is clearly a sin in the Bible. And if those creative interpreters of the Bible are capable of creatively interpreting this away, fine. That won't stop the attacks on suspect Bible texts and on fundamentalists.

carm.org/homosexuality-…

The Bible is SO anti-feminist! It's incredibly old-fashioned when it comes to feminine roles.

Look at the verses! Liberal denominations wring their hands a lot. Another reason the Bible will soon be viciously attacked by mainstream culture.

openbible.info/topics/against…

I could go on. Now, the only reason the Bible isn't daily attacked on CNN and MSNBC and the NYT is that politicians are expected to genuflect before Christianity. So they embrace liberal denominations.

That requirement is going to change soon.

And when it does...look out.

Liberal denominations will instantly become even more liberal, not exactly totally repudiating the Bible, but getting very, very clear and open about how it is merely inspired. Ecumenicism and interfaith will be everywhere in the liberal denominations, even more than now.

But this will give the majority of Democrats who, even if they say they're Christians, cover to attack the Bible itself and then *really* demonize fundamentalists, or evangelicals, or however they'll be described.

Christians will be called extremists and terrorists. Just wait.

I don't mean the village atheist or even the new atheists. I'm talking about a massive left-wing and mainstream media movement to cancel the Bible and all vestiges of traditional Christianity.

I hope I'm wrong. I doubt I am. It's the direction we're moving in.

When? This decade

or maybe next. But not long now.

If you think I'm wrong, explain why, in spite of massive trends that you and I know are happening now. How can belief in the Bible survive as a generally "OK" stance for even one more generation?