Kate Matsuda · 5 answers · 1y
Provocative question: Some Evangelical Christians in the US reject some things in the Bible as too leftist. Read about it the other minute. Can somebody in the know clear things up for me?
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Provocative question: Some Evangelical Christians in the US reject some things in the Bible as too leftist. Read about it the other minute. Can somebody in the know clear things up for me?
I dont feel like there's much to be in the know about or clear up. It's just saying the thing aloud that they've actually been doing.
It's mainly cult-like behavior and this oppressive-authority-quality of religion that attracts those people to it? They're fascists, they want to do fascism. Some of the Jesus "teachings" are famously not exactly embracing fascism. They want(ed) to use Christianity to their advantage, but ultimately it is an already well-established authority that isn't their state. They try to marry it to their state, but you run into problems like Jesus being pro care for the sick or injured. Or you know, the whole "eye of a needle" thing means you or your true messiah will not be going to Heaven.
I mean they've never really been into Jesus. It's the groupies, not the music.
I feel like that's not really an exclusively Christian thing, at least the part where the devout will ignore the lines of the holy text that don't line up with their worldview - the political ideology gets crowbarred into the religion (regardless of the poor fit) instead of religious beliefs shaping the ideology
Idk, but I've seen arguments made with several Jesus quotes or aspects of his life that Jesus would have been a liberal, while it seems that most Christians, at least in the US, are Republicans. It's so angeringly hypocritical that their religion tells them to love everyone and they choose the selfish and bigoted political party. It's even more hypocritical that some would outright reject certain parts of the Bible for their convenience even though their religion upholds that the entire Bible, or at least the New Testament, is the infallible word of God, especially Jesus' words if you otherwise have any doubts.
I'm deeply uninformed but my best bet is that it isn't about what's written in the Bible, it's about the interpretation. There may be some things they don't accept even if solid interpretations allow those things. Or they may fall back to the old testament to justify things that don't go well with the new testament.
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