• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’ve seen multiple news articles/discussion about pastors being told that the Sermon on the Mount is too “woke.”

    It’s been like that since Reagan. Carter was open about his faith and really genuine in it. He made the mistake of interviewing with Playboy and saying he had his own struggles with sin - as any believing Christian would admit.

    But somehow Reagan became the evangelicals choice. Christian nationalism has always been the latter wearing the former as a fig leaf. The tenets of Christianity - as evidence by the things that they fight for their “first amendment rights” for - are reduced down to opposition to LGBT+ people, abortion, and ultimately women having any form of independence from their fathers or husbands. They have had nothing to do with Jesus or anything that could be said to be his message for a long time.

    When Ollie North started giving tours on the evangelical circuit - that should have been a wake up call.