I recently described why I think “woke” has become a vacuous word that means little more than “libtard” in modern parlance. It seems apropos, then, that Christianity Today also recently released a piece that saw the editor-in-chief claim (in a previous NPR interview) that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right.

It turns out that Jesus’s teachings are increasingly considered by many Christians to be too “liberal” and “weak.”

  • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneOPM
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    1 year ago

    The guy who came to bring not peace but a sword was a pacifist? That’s some interesting cherry-picking.

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      1 year ago

      The beauty of the bible is that it contradicts itself all throughout the OT and NT, so adherents can point to some random excerpt for basically any stance they want to take