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It's hard for words when you watch people you love go down evil paths because of the pastors they trust, the news they trust, the books they read.
It's like a reverse discipleship process- a discipleship of racism and fear and nationalism all cloaked in Bible words. I am so sad.
It's like a reverse discipleship process- a discipleship of racism and fear and nationalism all cloaked in Bible words. I am so sad.
If we can be discipled to live the fruits of the Spirit and discipled to reflect the Beatitudes, why don't we believe that discipleship works in reverse, too - that if you sit under the instruction of the wrong people, you can look less and less like Christ and not even notice.
I don't want to take away responsibility from folks, but I think of that verse so often about those who "cause these little ones to stumble." Powerful, evil people are manipulating & using vulnerable people, preying on their fear, discipling them away from Jesus. So fucking sad.
Again, I don't mean to say "vulnerable" because folks aren't - doing truly terrible things.
But if we can become more holy and humble and gentle because of our churches, mentors, friends - we can also get worse, get evil, because of those things too. Good people can become bad.
But if we can become more holy and humble and gentle because of our churches, mentors, friends - we can also get worse, get evil, because of those things too. Good people can become bad.
People like Fr**lin Gr***m who have such a huge following and who are discipling so many people literally away from Jesus. Better for a millstone to be around your neck. I'm so so angry and so so sad.
Also I keep coming back to - w/o my philosophy professors at my state college, w/o my theology professors at my liberal seminary, w/o pastors & mentors, w/o friends -
I was a homeschooled racist anti-abortion homophobic nationalist GOP girl w a framed pic of Reagan on my wall.
I was a homeschooled racist anti-abortion homophobic nationalist GOP girl w a framed pic of Reagan on my wall.
People came for me, without those folks I don't know where I'd have ended up. How do we come for each other in a climate like this? How do get our people? Is it even possible anymore while the nationalist anti-christ discipleship machine churns out followers?
Jesus have mercy.
Jesus have mercy.
