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Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)

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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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[–] o0joshua0o 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Evangelicals really need to ask themselves: "Are we the baddies?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have been for decades. The "moral majority" was about the time that they started to lean onto being shitty, and they've only gotten worse/more hateful since then.

Seems like evangelicalism became about consolidating power decades ago, and Jesus was just window dressing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Christians have been the single most evil organization on the entire planet for hundreds of years, only briefly eclipsed by Adolf Hitler. Christians basically invented the systemic genocide.

They know they're "the baddies" and revel in it. Their God is an awesome God, and you will obey without question or die.

[–] madcaesar 6 points 1 year ago

Hitler and the catholic church were intertwined, there is no need to distinguish.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’ve even got the skull motif going with the Punisher logo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I resent that, they don't get to steal a great logo like that, fuck them.