Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

As I have said over and over again, most of the people I have encountered in this country who refer to themselves as "Christians" would be horrified if they ever found out what Christianity is supposed to be. My guess is that the thought extends to the vast majority of people who love to trumpet their "Christianity" right before they discuss "hating those libbies, gays, minorities and immigrants".

 

Reposting

 

Trump supporters want Jesus. They want bread and circuses.

 

I think your last sentence is contradicted by the previous quoted sentence. Did Russell Moore ever push for Trump?

 

Russell Moore is a long time Trump critic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/07/26/russell-moore-southern-baptist-trump/

"Following Moore’s advice could come with consequences. The former Southern Baptist ethicist was a rising star in 2013, when he was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission after the group’s former leader left amid scandal. Moore was known for his love of 1970s outlaw country stars Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, his advocacy for immigration reform and his skepticism about the close ties between the Republican Party and evangelicals.

"Things went well until the rise of Donald Trump, which turned evangelical leaders into would-be contestants on a real-life version of “The Apprentice” — Trump’s reality television series — “all clamoring to make the cut on the next episode and fearful of hearing the words you’re fired,” he writes in “Losing Our Religion,” released this week by Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

"Moore’s criticism of Trump as a candidate and as president, along with his advocacy for survivors of abuse in the SBC, made him enemies and eventually cost him his job. In 2021, he resigned from the ERLC to take a new role at Christianity Today, where he is the editor in chief."

 

FWIW, Southern Baptists are drifting left/woke just like every other mainstream denomination.

 

I was hoping to find that the headline was for a satire piece

 

I'm sure the tendency was there before, Trump didn't create it. But he gave it voice and affirmation.

 

I’ve been saying it for years, Christianity is whatever you want it to be…. “Jesus agrees with whatever I think is right.”

This is just another example of “Christians” rejecting what Jesus got wrong… add that to feeding and healing the poor, loving your neighbor, not judging others, to name a few….

 

He did give voice to lots of frustrations, some of them quite understandable. But of course he’s no more worthy of worship than any other man.

 

True enough, Jesus has become a Divine Subject. Although I’d hasten to add that the Jesus of the Bible was all about judgement. His first recorded word was “Repent” and he spoke of hell more often than of love. And the lack of this substance, this “meat”, has been cited as a major reason for the emptying of churches.

 

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Or maybe I've just been reading the words in the wrong order?

 

Not really. More correctly is, people interpreting to only acknowledge the words or phrases that they agree with and completely ignore the rest. That makes it "their version" of Christianity.

 

The irony of the first line of that tweet is not lost on me.

No, in fact, Jesus was Jewish.

 

Sorry, more often than heaven …

The Uncomfortable Subject Jesus Addressed More than Anyone Else

 

Agree. Frustrations, anger, resentment, victimhood …

 

Trump worshipping "Christians" are lost in every way in life.

 

They're not wrong. We need stand your ground Jesus. The Drag Queens & Baristas are coming for us!