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Calling Out the Church Is an Act of Witness

“Why are you calling the church out and making them look so bad?” someone asked me after I preached about the church’s lack of justice. “The people you’re preaching to probably don’t even need to hear that message. You were likely just preaching to the choir and calling out rare extremists.”

I always feel a bit gaslighted when people tell me this. I wish I had screenshotted all of the insane posts I saw from Christians I knew during the pandemic. The “rare” extremists are apparently many of my friends. I grew up with them. I played at their houses. They taught me who Jesus was. And now that they had been socially and politically provoked, I was observing in them an unimaginable behavior I didn’t know they were capable of.

To some extent, I need to speak out on these issues for evangelistic reasons, as the world needs to see a pastor address such behavior. Unbelievers think that the “rare” extremist is what Christianity looks like because they have seen the same posts I have. I also need to speak out to save myself. If I allow this kind of stuff to go on without saying anything, then I become complacent—and I can’t handle that. People need to know that Christians aren’t all like that. They need to know that Jesus looks different than what’s being presented to them.

To represent God wrongly is what it means to take the Lord’s name in vain, and it was such a big deal to God that he made it one of the Ten Commandments. In the Old Testament, the Israelites bore the name of Yahweh just by being Israelites. Wherever they went and whatever they did, they were to be a specific representation of the name Yahweh. They were to have the character of Yahweh, do justice like Yahweh, farm like Yahweh, party like Yahweh, and take care of the oppressed like Yahweh. They failed over and over and over again until Yahweh eventually divorced his abusive wife, Israel. They had not done a good job of portraying Yahweh to the world, and they had taken his name in vain through their misrepresentation. Christians do the same thing.

So why do I speak about justice to a world that doesn’t always want to hear about it?

I speak because someone has to bear witness to it.

WWJD This Easter? #ABlueView 🧵1/3

#ChristianNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #SeparationOfChurchAndState

🧵2/3 An Eternal, Unforgivable Sin II

#ReligiousHypocrisy #USAID #SaveForeignAid
https://x.com/ablueview/status/1888717023150051512?s=61

Who is more dangerous to children, clergy or drag queens?

Based on this free NYTimes story, I think its quite clear it’s not the queens: https://tinyurl.com/5fbpu5k6

#ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #Projection #DragHysteria #GayRights #TransRights #ABlueView

Unhappy with the state of the border today? Blame Donald Trump who killed a strong border bill because it would give a win to the Democrats.

#Immigration #Migrants #WhiteNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #GOPHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #ABlueView

"The busy Chicano artist Lalo Alcaraz ... has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century." https://laloalcaraz.com

#Immigration #Migrants #WhiteNationalism #GOPracism #ReligiousHypocrisy #GOPHypocrisy #GOPExtremism #ABlueView

Funny how all the "smart" media pundits keep insisting that Trump's immigration strategy is his best way to win even though:
* It failed in '18, '20 & '22: caravans are coming!
* Now, 2/3 of voters disapprove & think he's fear mongering

#TrumpIsRacist #GOPRacists #ReligiousHypocrisy #ABlueView

Louisiana: "We're proudly taking child grooming to a whole new level, spreading it to every classroom in the state"

#ChristianNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #AmericanTaliban #Theocracy #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SCOTUS #ABlueView

The Ten Commandments & Louisiana

#ChristianNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #AmericanTaliban #Theocracy #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SCOTUS #ABlueView

The Religious Right's version of Freedom of Religion: All religions are equal but some are more equal than others.

#ChristianNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #AmericanTaliban #Theocracy #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SCOTUS #ABlueView

🧵3/3 Christian Nationalism is a self-defeating ideology.

#ChristianNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #AmericanTaliban #RadicalRight #Theocracy #SeparationOfChurchAndState

Trump increasingly thinks he's God, and his self-proclaimed Christian followers unbelievably think that's cool.

#ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #GOPCowards
#WeChangeRulesWhenItHelpsUs #MAGARepublicans
#WeaponizingStupidity #TrumpCult #MAGAmorons #ABlueView

On Easter Sunday, with Trump selling bibles, again threatening Muslim immigrants & lecturing Jews on Israel, I thought this was a timely reminder about the First Amendment's Separation of Church & State.

#ChristianNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #ABlueView

Trump, his Bible grift, Easter Sunday and #EvangelicalHypocrisy

#TrumpIsForSale #TrumpGrift #ReligiousHypocrisy #TrumpIsAFraud #TheArtOfTheSteal #LockHimUp #TrumpFundraising #ABlueView

Ignoring the Constitutional separation of Church and State, the AL Supreme Court's ruling introduces theocracy to America. Iran's Mullahs must be so proud.

https://mastodon.social/@ablueview/111977598234202470

#SeparationOfChurchAndState #ChristianNationalism #AmericanTaliban #ReligiousHypocrisy #ABlueView

The white evangelical Protestants made a deal with the Devil for political power🧵1/4

Do you think it'll come back to haunt them in Nov?

#ChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #EvangelicalHypocrisy #RadicalRight #AmericanTaliban #ABlueview

Moms for Liberty is a good descriptive name as long as you think Liberty is a good synonym for homophobic, racist, fascist censorship

#ChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #RadicalRight #AmericanTaliban #BookBanning #Censorship #CRT
#SchoolBoards #ABlueView

Moms for Liberty is a good descriptive name as long as you think Liberty is a good synonym for homophobic, racist, fascist censorship

#ChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #RadicalRight #AmericanTaliban #BookBanning #Censorship #CRT
#SchoolBoards #ABlueView

Moms for Liberty is a good descriptive name as long as you think Liberty is a good synonym for homophobic, racist, fascist censorship

#ChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #ReligiousHypocrisy #RadicalRight #AmericanTaliban #BookBanning #Censorship #CRT
#SchoolBoards #ABlueView

My review of the movie Religulous – Where Bill Maher Empowers the Anti-Intelligence Conservatives #bible #BillMaher #Christianity #fundamentalism #LarryDavid #moviereview #religion #religiousfundamentalism #religioushypocrisy #religiousmovies

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2023/10/17/movie-review-religulous-where-bill-maher-empowers-the-anti-intelligence-conservatives/