Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'
Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
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Right wing conservatives and similar authoritarians - if developing into fascists - usually ditch religion at some point of that journey for practical reasons ...
They aren't ditching religion, they're making their own with a new idol. And I'm guessing many of them don't even realize what they're doing - they probably still think of themselves as Christians. This is the power of Trump's grifting.
This is how many new religions get going ironically. The key is that right now it's a cult. It has to get out of cult status by opening up and appealing to the masses. You can see that Scientology has that problem, it's grown but it's not open to everyone and it still acts like a cult. It'll be an ~~interesting ~~ terrifying hundred years if it continues.....