Honestly I think this reveals a deep and poisonous weakness in a lot of formerly less overtly conservative churches—this “oh we never used to be political”
Bitch you always shoulda been political, you might have been better inoculated against this now
Bitch you always shoulda been political, you might have been better inoculated against this now
https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1549021242568724486
The church as an institution should not exist to make you “feel good”, it should actually have a mission, and if that mission is in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ there is no way it CAN’T be political
Standing with the oppressed and the marginalized is inescapably political, and if that’s not what your church is doing, well, Jesus had some things to say about that kind of shit
Churches like the person is describing have no immune system against this sort of conspiracist extremism if they had no explicit guiding principles to begin with. They were and are massively vulnerable to capture.
And as institutions the world is better off without them #emptythepews
Like, this right here. There is literally no way to actually read the Gospels and come away with this as a conclusion about what Jesus was trying to do.
Jesus was a Jew. As such, he wasn’t concerned with “souls” nearly as much as *what people do when they’re alive*.
Jesus was a Jew. As such, he wasn’t concerned with “souls” nearly as much as *what people do when they’re alive*.
Does he mention the afterlife? Sure—and mostly as illustrations regarding how *what you do when you’re alive* is what God cares about.
Your spiritual wellbeing for Jesus is inextricably bound up in whether you act with social justice as your primary concern.
Your spiritual wellbeing for Jesus is inextricably bound up in whether you act with social justice as your primary concern.
The sheer backflips people will do in order to avoid that extremely obvious fact.
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