I’m reading a book right now that mentions just how absolutely savage white settlers were on the American frontier. I mean, they make the army at the time look saintly by comparison. No concerns at all about slaughtering indigenous men, women, and children just so they could be yeoman farmers living the dream. Honestly I might even put them ahead of some of these present day settlers in Palestine just in terms of sheer evilness.
Then I had a thought. These are the same people who essentially founded the modern day evangelical movement in the US. Evangelicals today are both the literal and figurative descendants of the monsters who genocided an entire people so they can get a little slice of that pie. Their morals haven’t improved at all in 2 centuries.
I was raised evangelical. A big reason I deconverted was I started taking the idea of “faith without works is dead” very seriously. Except, within the evangelical framework there isn’t really a way to do “good works”, even though it’s right there in the Bible. Evangelical churches and groups don’t offer any programs to genuinely help the poor and needy. You can try and organize things yourself but no one’s gonna help you. And if you dare start talking about “social justice” enough your fellow Christians will get real suspicious that you might be one of those “liberals” and start shutting you out. The whole system is designed to discourage you from doing actual good things so I couldn’t figure out how I was supposed to do “good works”. Could not be happier to be out.
You start looking to hammer things out and get your beliefs in order only to find out that everyone around you treats everything that could be good or beautiful about your religion with scorn
I’m reading a book right now that mentions just how absolutely savage white settlers were on the American frontier. I mean, they make the army at the time look saintly by comparison. No concerns at all about slaughtering indigenous men, women, and children just so they could be yeoman farmers living the dream. Honestly I might even put them ahead of some of these present day settlers in Palestine just in terms of sheer evilness.
Then I had a thought. These are the same people who essentially founded the modern day evangelical movement in the US. Evangelicals today are both the literal and figurative descendants of the monsters who genocided an entire people so they can get a little slice of that pie. Their morals haven’t improved at all in 2 centuries.
Straight up - From the book of Mathew: "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit."
Their own book (admittedly they neither read nor are they interested in scholarship or theology) condemns them endlessly for their bullshit.
I was raised evangelical. A big reason I deconverted was I started taking the idea of “faith without works is dead” very seriously. Except, within the evangelical framework there isn’t really a way to do “good works”, even though it’s right there in the Bible. Evangelical churches and groups don’t offer any programs to genuinely help the poor and needy. You can try and organize things yourself but no one’s gonna help you. And if you dare start talking about “social justice” enough your fellow Christians will get real suspicious that you might be one of those “liberals” and start shutting you out. The whole system is designed to discourage you from doing actual good things so I couldn’t figure out how I was supposed to do “good works”. Could not be happier to be out.
You start looking to hammer things out and get your beliefs in order only to find out that everyone around you treats everything that could be good or beautiful about your religion with scorn
Nazis got their inspiration of generalplan ost and "living spaces" from America Manifest Destiny.
also evangelicals seem to have very similar attitudes and social views as the pharisees