Rev. Benjamin Cremer

When Israel and America claim that this war is God’s will, remember that Jesus said that peacemakers are the children of God, not the warmongers.

It’s important to remember in this time that the theology of the Left Behind series is fiction.

The rapture, unwavering support of modern Israel, war in the Middle East as ushering in the end times. All of it.

And it’s allowed to shape international policy.

You can oppose authoritarianism in Iran and the United States at the same time.

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

It takes a great deal of arrogance to live in the U.S. with over 200 different sects of Christianity, all with their own unique theology, yet insist that only your sect has the authority to speak, not only for all Christians, but for every person in our country.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer I have spent the majority of my life in Evangelical Christian spaces. I have experienced a lot of church hurt. I now write to explore topics that often are at the intersection of politics and Christia...

My newsletter tomorrow is called, “Wilderness and The War of Identity.”

In it, I invite us to ponder the temptations Jesus faced in the wilderness in Matthew 4:1-11 and how his response helps us to respond to Christian Nationalism.

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One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that tells us we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over us all.

When you insist on seeing God in the face of the emperor, no matter how corrupt they are, and refuse to see God in the face of the immigrant being arrested after being falsely accused of being a criminal, you have yet to understand the gospel of Jesus.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed." -Proverbs 31:8

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin

If you’re okay with human beings and their children suffering in inhumane conditions, fearing the future, and having their right to due process ignored, you don’t have to tell me your religious beliefs.

The fact that you’re okay with those things tells me everything about your religious beliefs.

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America is not a Christian nation. America is currently a nation where authoritarians are misusing Christianity as a tool of oppression and self serving power.

If your nation harms the very people Jesus called us to serve, namely the poor, the hungry, the sick, the immigrant, the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and oppressed, all while calling your nation “Christian,” you are embodying the exact kind of religious hypocrisy Jesus raged against.

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Notice how those who wanted to overthrow the government for being asked to carry proof of their covid vaccination, claiming it’s an infringement on their freedoms, are suddenly all in favor of needing multiple proofs of identity just so they can exercise their constitutional right to vote.

Imagine saying, “they have to obey the law“ when it comes to immigrants but not when it comes to the people holding the highest positions of power in the country yet still somehow expecting everyone to believe you take the law seriously.

One of the most successful pieces of far right propaganda was to convince so many Christians that helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, loving all our neighbors, and caring for our planet was “leftist” and wasn’t actually part of following Jesus.

If our Christianity causes the abused to be ignored, the stranger to be unwelcome, kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, and our planet to be disregarded all while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

If our Christianity causes us to protect the powerful and ignore the powerless, that’s when we know we are following someone other than Jesus.

Amen.

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is that we should be more concerned about immigrants possibly being criminals than we are about those in the highest positions of power, who wear crosses, quote scripture, while actually just using Christianity as a tool to perpetrate injustice.

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One of the most blatant forms of hypocrisy in our time is Christians holding all ordinary people accountable to the most rigid moral standards while simultaneously holding their preferred politicians and celebrities accountable to no standards at all.

If Jesus returned and came to the United States today, he would be criticized for not speaking English.

He would be called “Marxist” for telling us all to help the poor.

He would be targeted for deportation because of the color of his skin.

All by people who claim to follow him.

If only gun violence was a halftime show.

If only food insecurity and loss of healthcare was a halftime show.

If only children being bombed was a halftime show.

If only the threat to democracy was a halftime show.

Then maybe there would be this much outrage about those things.

"I hate all your show and pretense, the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings. Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living." Amos 5:21-24

If our beliefs about the gospel of Jesus as Christians are somehow threatened by diversity, inclusion, equality, and the empowerment of others, we have deeply misunderstood the gospel of Jesus.

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When love gets the last word: audiobook.

I’ve officially launched my audiobook devotional for the season of lent! There is an ebook available as well.

You can find it here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/products/aud...