I always thought it was weird that in the Baptist church I grew up in, I never heard a single sermon from the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and the gospels, except for the parts about Jesus birth and death.
I later figured out that there are a LOT of passages in there that are very… Uh… Inconvenient for Evangelicals and fundamentalists. By “inconvenient” I mean it causes the rest of their theology to collapse on itself. So it’s just easier to ignore all those “liberal talking points.”
Related - I passed a church the other day with one of the electronic signs out front.
It flashed “Pray for Israel” with the Israeli flag.
American Evangelicals are in-ex-fucking-plicable. And I say this as someone who was raised in that sectarian tradition.
I always thought it was weird that in the Baptist church I grew up in, I never heard a single sermon from the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and the gospels, except for the parts about Jesus birth and death.
I later figured out that there are a LOT of passages in there that are very… Uh… Inconvenient for Evangelicals and fundamentalists. By “inconvenient” I mean it causes the rest of their theology to collapse on itself. So it’s just easier to ignore all those “liberal talking points.”
They’re not Christians. They worship israel
Only because they believe isreal existing is required for the end of the world.
Christianity is a doomsday cult.
This is a sticking point for me.
Those ARE Christians.