#Evangelicals

"Your culture is what you tolerate."I ran across this statement recently & found it a really powerful explanation for how individual apathy can create an environment that enables evil &
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I rarely talk about my Christian past cause the anxiety/existential crisis ex-evangelicals go through daily is a lot sometimes. It can be lonely. To be able to escape the toxic
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I wasn’t wrong. Those in the evangelical extremist camp are talking about retaliation and working on building international support.https://twitter.com/sunnshiiny/status/1380601325801467904 Pawlowski on Fox News.https://www.youtube.com/wa
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When Francis #Fukuyama, in his 1992 book, disclosed the "end of history" #thesis, he became a world celebrity.The formulation was simple, but devastating for the left: faced with the evidence
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Always interested in re-upping older but great reads. There was some discourse yesterday and today on this but this Peter Beinart piece is always good.https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemi
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I spent my ambulance ride Thursday listening to the paramedic try to justify the pastor’s behavior-including how he encourages his congregants to not mask now-as religious freedom & an expression
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This is a weird and kinda sad double-down for many reasons, but one stands out to me, the issue of the reviewer being an outsider, and why that matters. Because
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...did we all miss that fascist theocracy has been the goal of American evangelicals and fundamentalists since (the beginning) at least the 1980s?It amazes me how often we give nuclear
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This is pretty much where I'm at.In particular, moral purity on abortion seems no more possible to me than moral purity on racism, sexism, poverty, asylum seekers, and other assaults
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Thomas Twining, the famous tea merchant writes to EIC on the dangers of missionary activity in India & why they should be stopped.For close to 200 years EIC tried &
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I have often criticized the “angry God” of some Christians. But then I will have people say something like this to me. “But don’t you think God gets mad about
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The couple years leading up to my deconstruction were years spent convincing myself I was ok. Even tho my heart was questioning a few things at that time and I
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1: #NowYoReligionStankyTooTrump's first Attorney General gave Jeffrey Epstein a very VERY lenient plea deal for being accused of underage sex trafficking.https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/10/mike-pence-backs-alex-acosta-amid
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1 like = 1 thing that makes me sad 1. M has a boyfriend 2. M isn't a Christian 3. M lives 3 hours away and so I don't get
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If anything the Handmaid's Tale is a cautionary tale of moral progressivism acting for the 'greater good.'Framed as religious Puritanism, the setting is a world where a mysterious illness has
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With everything going on with Jerry Falwell and Liberty University, the topic of #churchtoo and church abuse is back in the limelight. Which, whether you're a Christian or not, chances
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