A Red Letter Christian ✝️ ✊️

I was watching the #petehegseth hearings and saddened by how easily we elevate macro morality over individual morality. Pete appears to be, at least very recently, an objectively bad person. Jesus had special disdain for hypocrites in power.

Yes! And it's a SOLVABLE problem!

The irony isn't lost on me that the "anti-christ" figure #Christians fear is not biblical, but if it were, Donald #Trump would fit the modern definition to a T.

As I reflect on #january6th, I think about the millions of Christians who were programmed for a generation to "fight" for #Jesus instead of following his example. Such indoctrination prepared them to accept an agent of evil that is #trump, a man who has no kindness or empathy in his heart.

We must reject and call out luxury #Christianity, where the church is nothing more than a social club that isolates itself from the outside world and it's suffering. Jesus lived in the world, he didn't call people to him, he traveled to where they were.

A local mega church has a bookstore and coffee bar right outside the inner sanctum. Can they not see the deep conflict with Jesus's message that presents?

Christians have equated questioning the Bible to questioning God. In fact, mere curiosity about the bibles origins and history is frowned upon. It's become a holy book that you shouldn't read or want to understand except on the most surface level.

Evangelicals have elevated the Bible to its own form of diety surrendering to its absolute authority. Most modern Christians don't even read the Bible, settling instead for their pastors selected readings.

How inspiring would it be if Jesus was a man like us? But also, how dangerous?

Fun but awkward fact: Not Paul, nor Peter, nor Jesus's own brother James make any mention of the virgin birth in their many letters. These are letters that predate the gospels. Jesus was the enemy of the Church until he wasn't, then they elevated him to God to silence critics.

This winter, instead of tithing to your church, buy warm clothes (wool socks, gloves), grab hot coffee, and help someone cold without shelter. It’ll cost little but feel more rewarding than anything else this Christmas. This is the true teachings of Jesus. Unlimited kindness and generosity.

God should not he reduced to a national mascot like the God's of old. Real Christians should be fundamentally indifferent to earthly forms of governance. Jesus was killed by a cold and uncaring beaurocrat of the state, he's not coming back to earth to promote tariffs and tax cuts.

Nowhere, nor in anything, is there a closer resemblance between the teaching of the Church and that of Christ, than in their mutual contradiction. If the teaching of Christ is the truth, the teaching of the Church cannot be true also.

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Corporate Christianity avoids the actual teachings of Christ. They don't want you to have to modify your behavior. They talk only about accepting what Jesus was, not how he called his people to live. We can't have people selling everything they own can we?

A local church raised more than 30 million dollars to build . . . an amphitheater. The pastor framed it as "an investment in the kingdom of heaven"

The genocide of billions of God's creations each year is a crime against God that we should talk about more.

American Christianity has turned to a corporate model to survive. That model prioritizes growth over everything else.