Yeah, they want government to prevent abortions and outlaw gender-affirming surgery, but they don’t want government to feed the hungry - that’s for individuals to do.
Uhhuh.
Funny thing about this quote.
Growing up as a fundamentalist Christian, I was taught that the path to eternal life was to accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior.
I’ve been an atheist for decades now.
I was recently reading a book about the development of the ideas of heaven and hell throughout the history of Christianity and I read this full quote in context. Reading the words of Christ, it is glaringly obvious to me that he’s saying, right here, that the path to eternal life is compassion for one’s fellow human, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalized. It’s right there.
Not belief. Action. Compassionate action. That’s the path to eternal life, according to Jesus Christ.
Yet empathy has become a dirty word for many Christians now, when I can’t think of anything more empathetic than Jesus putting himself in the shoes of vulnerable people to such an extent that he considered himself interchangeable with them.
He was a Jewish guy. Good deeds matter in Judaism.
When you break it down, Christianity is basically just a Greek mystery cult wearing a Jewish mystic’s skin as a mask. Avoiding labor for an entire day every week, sticking to a specific diet, ritual sacrifices, having part of your dick sliced off - that’s a hard sell. “Just believe and you’re in”? That’s easy to get buy-in on.
But they think that they exist, which is just as bad, because now they’ll start arresting pilots from all of those airlines that are spewing DHMO into the atmosphere.
You can’t just ignore the crazy, because the crazy really does exist.
Pandering to the crazy only encourages the crazy. We’ve seen how well that’s worked the last 30 years; we kept sane-washing the crazy and now we’re awash in it.
Anyone who believes we’ve seen peak crazy is in for a big surprise. This is the barest tip of the iceberg crazyberg.
But this law does explicitly regulate the religious behavior of individual Christians. It would as bad as saying '“any Christian pastor, or other church official, found not to have laid with man as with woman in the past 30 days faces a 50k fine”. Arguably worse, giving food to the poor, and showing hospitality to foreigners and strangers, is far more central to Christian identity (and has way more of the Bible dedicated to it) than proscriptions on homosexuality.
Damn straight.
The first step will have to be Christians waking up one day and realizing what it actually means to be a Christian. Apparently, the “new commandment” of, “Love One Another”, is far too vague and verbose for those people to understand.
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There is a lot of truth to this. Early Christianity essentially grew out of Gnosticism from Judaism, and evolved into what we know today.
Whose founding document was heavily influenced by a mortal dude named John, a man with severe sexual hang-ups.
2000 years later that one man’s wacky ideas about sex permeate a large fraction of human culture. Everybody else is just scratching their heads in wonderment.
That’s true, but I also thank him. Something would be lost if sex wasn’t a little dirty. 
Though TBH while the GOP has been doing a lot of pandering to crazy recently I don’t think this is an example of that. This is absolutely core GOP values at work. The Gospel According to Supply Side Jesus all the way
Not really. It isn’t anti food bank or even anti charity. It’s anti non-citizen with a massive side order of anti-white.
So not Reaganomics; pure White Nationalist Fascism.
Hate to break it to you but that is core GOP values, and always was. They don’t care about all that other crap like small government, etc. and never did. It was always about pure White Nationalist Fascism.
The craziness about chem trails, vaccines and qanon, etc. is new (or at least moved from the crazy fringe to the mainstream). But the white nationalism was always their core values the only thing that changed is Trump showed them they don’t need to pretend to care about all that other crap.
Hey, as a Coloradoan, I think Tennessee and Alabama should ban air travel! Could I pick a few other states too?
There were at least two Johns who had major influence on the New Testament, but I don’t think either one says much about sexuality. Were you thinking of Paul?
Crap. I was. D’oh!
Thank you for the correction.
That was my guess, too.
If Christians point to anything in the New Testament which seems to validate zealous and/or intolerant behavior, it’s nearly always from Paul’s letters.