Why do so many Western Christians continue to unquestioningly back the Israeli government (even cheering on war! 🤮) despite the example & teachings of Jesus?

If you are a Christian, or you know Christians, please consider sharing this thread 🧵: 1. Wrongly assuming that “Israel” in the Scriptures is synonymous with the modern nation state that took the same name in 1948.

This really ministered to me. Thank you @cewgreen. hope it speaks to you:

Blessed are the theologically homeless, for they do not find rest until God is all in all. Blessed are those whose theology spills from a pierced heart, for they are the consolation of God to God.

This statement & podcast from Greg Boyd a master class in how *not* to respond to an investigation. It’s disturbing, inappropriate, unhelpful and exposes serious theological failures that obstruct pursing the truth, repentance and healing justice.
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podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/thi… While Greg Boyd’s heart is undoubtedly processing his own grief and showing grace it runs the risk of seeming like a PR framing of details from one party without the narrative of the other that bypasses current the investigation.

People know that George Orwell literally fought against fascism, right?

Like travelled to Spain to volunteer fighting under the red and black flags of the anarcho-socialists, right?

That his “Animal Farm” is a socialist critique of authoritarian Communism, right? Next time a Trump supporter wants to use Orwell maybe just read some Orwell expressing his own political journey to them...

“First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (the Indian Imperial Police, in Burma)...

G’day mates in the USA,

With #Election2020 there will be a lot of,

“If _______ wins I’m moving to Australia.” 🦘🏄🏽🏖🦜

A few things to keep in mind beyond roos, beaches, Hemsworths, @Patty_Mills @RebelWilson @russellcrowe @Wil_Anderson & prawns (not shrimp) on the barbie...🦘 A study by former Stanford professor now Sydney University's US Studies Centre chief executive @SimonJackman (& team) found,

🦘Aussie conservative voters are ideologically closer to Hillary Clinton voters than Trump voters.

(Yep. Aussie *conservatives*) 🐨

The Hebrew prophets would not see the neutrality of church leaders as a virtue while people are victimised.

They would name it as an idolatrous vice. The Hebrew prophets would see impartiality in the context of injustice as a travesty. They would ache with those on the receiving end of oppression. They would cry out with the poor.

At the crux of so much anti ‘anti-Constantinian-Christian-Imperialism’ (including white supremacist manifestations) is the idea that Christians should play chaplain to the Powers that crucify the poor rather that be found with the Nazarene among those threatened with crucifixion.

https://twitter.com/markdtooley/status/1309905321909985281

Being Beloved Community is political responsibility.

Confession is political responsibility.

Repentance is political responsibility.

Reparations is political responsibility.

The economics of the Lord’s Table is political responsibility.

NVDA is political responsibility.

“There’s a danger when reading the Bible that some may lift Mosaic morals and Pauline principals to same level of the life of Jesus Christ.“
-@PastorHJW @AlfredStreetBC “That’s why for me the Bible must be subject to the Gospel.”
-@PastorHJW @AlfredStreetBC

“I [as an Indigenous woman] don’t have an empire I need to idolise. I just want to remind my First Nations sisters and brothers that no body is here for us, but Jesus.”

-Sarah Quint “Jesus couldn’t code-switch.” @sarahfeharris #WhoWillBeAWitness

Oh my... @om3 is preaching Mark 5... brace yourself for liberating grace @TrinityChicago!!! You want to be here for this. Seriously! campus.piksel.com/trinity-united/

Noah Otis is ok! Hallelujah. Now home safe. #FathersDay was more dramatic than we had planned. Without going into details, just prior to lunch we had to rush the lil’ fella to hospital. He had an overnight stay & received wonderful care. I want to thank our fam, friends, our global “Liberating Sunday School” community, our little collective we’ve started sharing Communion with on Sunday’s & @trinitychgo for their prayers, love and support.

I need to ask a fav from peeps who aren’t faith averse (yes my lovely kind athiests friends, you too). We had @vanbadham on @InVersePodcast (inverse.podiant.co/e/van-badham-m…)

I’ve just seen her fb & the comments, 😳🤢! Can we send Van some love for being vulnerable re: spirituality? 🙏 Van’s experience on fb reminds me that it’s not just God-botherers who deal with unkind fundamentalists in their community, agnostic and atheist friends also deal with prejudice bullies that undermine the intellectual integrity of their position by demeaning those that differ.

If you can’t hear the pathos of the prophets in the words of @realchriswebber, your heart might be completely captive to the Powers that be. #NoNBA There is a crisis in Christianity. An inability to discern the way of the Cross.

Athletes show more moral courage -risk more personally, professionally, financially, socially- than most pastors paid to teach the Bible every Sunday.

Don’t know who needs to hear this but after years of activism and being arrested, Rosa Parks was 42(!) she saw the seeds she planted grow into a moment in Montgomery.

So keep planting. 🌱 *I need to hear this.

When worship leaders provide the background music for Trump’s brand of white supremacy, every Christian needs a ‘come to Jesus moment’. #portland Discernment is an essential part of discipleship.

“God does not need to prove Godself. You are proof.” @om3 @TrinityChicago “Stand in the quiet truth of your Creator.” @om3 @TrinityChicago

“If you talk to elders they will tell you one of the most simple prayers you can pray is, “Oh Jesus!” -@om3 @TrinityChicago “What kind of strange theology steps over the man who has a need on the way to worship?” -@om3 @TrinityChicago

Brother Greg, the teaching MLK would accredit to Jim Lawson. Lewis actually pushed King to become more provocative with the Freedom Rides. But enemy-love wasn’t the goal, it was ‘the Way’, the goal was KOG liberation.

https://twitter.com/greg_boyd/status/1284587160780374023

@greg_boyd maybe it’s time to pick up a conversation we were having a decade ago about the need to not just have our Lord’s enemy-love as central but to risk crucifixion through confronting the Powers. Our Lord rejected both violent zealotry and the ‘purity’ of the Essenes.

I want to call all Christians everywhere to unity.

And who is our unity?
Jesus of Nazareth.

And what are we to be united in?
His mission.

And how does he describe it?

This kind of divisive-nonviolent-troublemaking that fiercely rejects all injustice, evil and oppression. You can’t read the Apostle Peter, you can’t read the Apostle Paul, you can’t read any of the New Testament’s appeal to “unity” and divorce it from a people who practice a divisive subversion of all hierarchy and their economic practice of jubilee that is good news for the poor.

@vanbadham @nathan_forster A quote from Dorothee Sölle, “I am often impatient when believers ask me: ‘Are you a Marxist?’ The best reply I can think of is a counter-question: ‘Do you brush your teeth? I mean, since the toothbrush has been invented?’ How can anyone read Amos and Isaiah, and not Marx... @vanbadham @nathan_forster ...and Engels? That would be absolute ingratitude toward a God who sends us prophets with the message that to know YHWH means to do justice...

I understand this tweet is pushing back against White Americans and talk of “gun rights” and other ridiculous claims. Yet in the context of the majority world we *must* uphold real human rights.

If you can’t read your Bible & have a passion for human rights, you are dangerous.

https://twitter.com/shaungroves/status/1278893351631302656

In the global context of the majority of people suffering under poverty, oppression and injustice, human rights has become a protest against this reality.