White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You
Just reading it brings back the pain the Obamas must have felt but a must read.
"For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity.
They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character—all without cause or evidence. They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.
[link:http://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/24/white-evangelicals-people/|
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Are they assholes also? 
Bit of a broad brush? If you guys were speaking about minority evangelicals your posts would be hidden, and yes, there are a bunch of minority evangelicals.
Only assholes are assholes.
And while we're on the subject of frustrated anger, roughly 30% of all white working class males voted Democratic in 2016.
I despise what most social conservative evangelicals are doing as much as anyone, and probably more than some because I'm surrounded by them here in the deep South. I get hate glares, and I hide my relationship to our son because it could destroy the business he does in this area if it were known.
But these assholes are very reliable voters, and they're certainly not "through with" themselves just because some others wish their wishes were horses.
Most will never have what we'd consider a true "come to Jesus" moment and will never repent.
We have to outvote them.
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The all weather breakfast!
Let's see if I can remember... The Priestly source, the Yawist source, the Elohist source, and Deuteronomy. That's likely why so many narratives in the Torah repeat themselves.
Yup! Atheists are generally better read on the Bible than holier than thou Christians.
Thanks for your response.
The moment you free yourself from the yoke of religious dogma is just as you said, "it was literally like a veil was lifted from my eyes". For me it was as if a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders. All of the guilt and shame they heap heap upon you disappeared. To me, that was what heaven was supposed to feel like. 
And the love.........the love I was supposed to feel as a christian finally appeared. The love of everyone, all inclusive, finally manifested itself when I rejected the "christian love" I was always taught about. There were too many conditions set for the supposed "christian love". John 9:25 suddenly had real meaning; "He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see". I hate to throw their scriptures back at them in defense of my awakening, but for the first time it all made sense.
It's always nice to run into others who have fled the hypocrisy of the "born agains".
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Just kidding everyone, just kidding.
but now it's plummeting. They have managed to undermine Christianity itself.
