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
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