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safeinOhio

(32,673 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 06:05 AM Nov 2017

Red Letter Christians.....

https://www.redletterchristians.org/conservative-evangelical-christianity-the-death-of-america/

"Perhaps nothing is more repulsive to the evangelical religious system than people living free to believe, worship, and pursue happiness outside of their control and without compliance to their creeds — especially those who in doing so would foster the dismantling of white, male, heterosexual, conservative, evangelical power and privilege."

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Red Letter Christians..... (Original Post) safeinOhio Nov 2017 OP
Interesting web site vlyons Nov 2017 #1
Far FAR too late. Liberalagogo Nov 2017 #2
This is ingrained in the psyche of many, Duppers Nov 2017 #3
Danish and Norwegian lav was The Ten Commandments TomVilmer Nov 2017 #9
Christianity itself is a patriarchal religion SHRED Nov 2017 #4
I think the Christians in this country will finally get what they've been asking for. YOHABLO Nov 2017 #5
Political Christians rather than Christians of faith. keithbvadu2 Nov 2017 #6
Republican Jesus keithbvadu2 Nov 2017 #7
seems to me plenty of evangelicals already live 'without compliance to their creeds' KG Nov 2017 #8
Good article. Duppers Nov 2017 #10

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
1. Interesting web site
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 06:48 AM
Nov 2017

Real Christians better wake up, because the fundamentalists are hi-jacking your religion and turning into some abomination with degenerate teachings.

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
3. This is ingrained in the psyche of many,
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:51 AM
Nov 2017

Especially all southern Christian conservatives I know of.




Also related...

"We must base our laws on faith, not reason.
—Mark Rushdoony


Dominionism or Christian sharia (and sometimes used interchangeably with Christian Reconstructionism and theonomy, see below) is a political and religious philosophy that seeks to make the United States government a Christian theocracy.[2] (Most Dominionists try to avoid using this name. Regardless, it is usually applied to any Christian movement with these explicit or implicit goals.)

Dominionists believe that the civil laws laid down by the Old Testament (as distinct from the moral laws such as the Ten Commandments) should be enforced by reforming the U.S. legal system along theocratic lines, which would entail a substantial increase in the use of capital punishment. They also believe that that biblical injunctions regarding slavery should be followed.[3][4] Dominionists are, for all intents and purposes, the Christian equivalent of Islamists demanding Sharia law.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dominionism




TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
9. Danish and Norwegian lav was The Ten Commandments
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:27 AM
Nov 2017

Before the 19th century our law was variations of The Ten Commandments, and the corporal punishments and mutilations were taken from The Old Testament. Our country was a Christian dictatorship, and I am sure many countries had the same Sharia system at those times. Today this part of our history is a strangely hidden knowledge. Some groups wants it back, and even they do no know the history...

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
5. I think the Christians in this country will finally get what they've been asking for.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 08:03 AM
Nov 2017

Total destruction of our Democracy.

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
6. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 08:36 AM
Nov 2017

Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

They support Trump who says he is so perfect that he does not need Christ or his forgiveness.

Like today's evangelical/religious right supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.

Evangelicals/religious right are easily able to spin their beliefs for political expediency.

The Donald who does not have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.

Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
10. Good article.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 12:44 PM
Nov 2017

Last edited Sat Nov 4, 2017, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Another kick and recommended.

Except this atheist disagrees with the last bit.

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