• prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s the difference between “We must be on God’s side” and “God is on our side”.

    When the Iraq war kicked off, there was a priest at my parents’ church that spoke out against it (as he explained it, “love your enemy” is one of the most challenging things Jesus asked of his followers. It doesn’t mean “forgive someone that cuts you off in traffic” it means literally whoever your enemy is, you must love, care for, and protect them, even if it means self sacrifice or dying to do so). Attendance at his sermons dropped by 60 or 70% for years. Eventually I think people started to come around, but he died before there was widespread sentiment against the war. I’m no longer religious, but I miss that priest.

  • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Related - I passed a church the other day with one of the electronic signs out front.

    It flashed “Pray for Israel” with the Israeli flag.

    American Evangelicals are in-ex-fucking-plicable. And I say this as someone who was raised in that sectarian tradition.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      I always thought it was weird that in the Baptist church I grew up in, I never heard a single sermon from the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and the gospels, except for the parts about Jesus birth and death.

      I later figured out that there are a LOT of passages in there that are very… Uh… Inconvenient for Evangelicals and fundamentalists. By “inconvenient” I mean it causes the rest of their theology to collapse on itself. So it’s just easier to ignore all those “liberal talking points.”

      • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Only because they believe isreal existing is required for the end of the world.

        Christianity is a doomsday cult.

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My sometimes evangelical, sometimes pentecostal aunt, who is in her mid 70s, says that she truly believes that the rapture will happen in her lifetime.

    I think that is why she’s always so excited about wars and how she supports Trump even though he ticks so many “Antichrist” boxes. Because all of that stuff proves to her that we’re in the end times and that she’ll be raptured in her lifetime.

    If we don’t hurry up and end the world, then that would mean that she might die, just as if she’s not the most important person in history, which doesn’t make any sense to her.