WakeForestRanger
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That's some strong Kool-Aid there
It really is so sad that these people and their followers have deluded themselves into thinking that Jesus wants us to elect people who care nothing about others. The "pastors" are going to have a lot to answer for at the day of judgment. Their followers are sheep - either too dumb to think for themselves, or just smart enough to figure out that their selfish desires get some air cover from these "teachings."
Agree with both of you. For those of us who believe, we can find a church that isn't led by lunatics, but it completely turns off nonbelievers. (FWIW, if anyone is looking for a biblically sound yet not insane church in Charlotte, Forest Hill is fantastic. Avoid Elevation.)
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article247126671.html
Franklin Graham really is begging to feel God's wrath.
I see a pickup around that has confederate flag and trump 2020 “no more bullshit” decals next to an Elevation sticker so, yeah fuck that place.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article247126671.html
Franklin Graham really is begging to feel God's wrath.
Author Stephen Prothero, a professor of religious studies at Boston University, described the grandchildren as “outliers in their own family and in the wider white evangelical community” in their willingness to accuse their uncle (Franklin) of abandoning Billy Graham’s example of non-partisanship by tying his ministry so tightly to Trump.
“But,” Prothero continued in an interview for this article, “They signal what could be growing disquiet about the hijacking of what was once a clearly Christian (and evangelistic) purpose for what is raw Republican politics.”...
... Prothero...said in an email for this article that elections provide “times of choosing” for religious communities. This election’s aftermath, he continued, will create an opportunity for evangelical dissidents like Jerushah, Aram, Chancellor John Piper, Christianity Today and many others to be heard now that the supportive din for Trump has faded.
“I can only hope — for their sake and the sake of the country — that these outlier voices represent a groundswell rather than some last gasp,” Prothero continued, “and that Franklin and his enablers (in his family and in the wider white evangelical world) will be called in some way to account.”
“affirmation of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality and any version of Critical Theory is incompatible with the Baptist Faith & Message.”
https://www.baptistpress.com/resour...idents-reaffirm-bfm-declare-crt-incompatible/