#exvangelical

If I could create a Christian church it would be the STFU and Serve Church in which members spend from 2025-2125 in silent service to atone for our sins. No preaching or texts, because we know what Jesus said and everyone else knows how we should behave. We are all equal and our religious symbol is a shush. 🤫 If the media asks who we are, we smile cryptically and say ONLY “Who do YOU say that we are?” and give them a loaf, a fish and some wine.
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#exvangelical #church

In another tone deaf move, the “He Gets Us” Campaign, partially sponsored by the relic-stealing president of Hobby Lobby, triggered former religious club members across the nation.

#exvangelical #tonedeaf #badPR

"What I’m driving at here is that publicly prescribing a vague monotheism is hardly less antithetical to the democratic embrace of pluralism than prescribing the adoption of a specific monotheism. So long as you’re asserting, in the public sphere, that there is one specific path to maximizing human flourishing and realizing human dignity, you’re making an anti-pluralist statement."

Chrissy Stroop examines the dangers within monotheism's constant disparagement of paganism.

https://religiondispatches.org/all-that-glitters-is-monotheism-ignorance-of-paganism-isnt-the-real-problem-with-david-wolpes-atlantic-essay/

#LongReads #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #religion #Pluralism #pagan #exmo #exmormon

“My kingdom is not of this world.” —John 18:36 #evangelicalism #exvangelical #uspol Good book so far. (And I appreciate the #OxfordComma…)

I’m a little late to the Straight White American Jesus podcast ( just a few episodes in) but damn I like it.

Evangelicals were weird in the 80’s when I left, but they seem to have gotten much weirder in the 90’s.

#StraightWhiteAmericanJesus
#exvangelical #podcast

Made it an entire week with the inlaws.. Then last night all the cousins were together to open presents and the FIL decided to have a Jesus quiz to see what order the kids got to open presents. 9yr old was not amused. Me and the wife were fuming. 🤬🤯😡

This morning as we were leaving I mentioned the snow we'd hit 12 hours into the drive, FIL's reply "makes ya wonder how they know all that" 😶🤷‍♂️

This is why I don't want to visit family around holidays.
#exvangelical #exchristian #atheist #science

Kristin Kobe’s Du Mez, author of #JesusAndJohnWayne, calls this “An immensely important book for our present moment.” You can’t tell from the title, but it is a book by a Christian, for Christians. #Exvangelical #ChristianNationalism

#thebible #biblestudy #bookclub #WordOfGod #dailybread #inspired #Unchangeable #translation #thebiblesays #biblical #GodsWord #exvangelical #christian #biblebeliever #TheGoodNews #gospel #devotions #deconstruction #wordofgodspeak #lostintranslation #KJV #NLT #NKJV #TheMessage #Incorruptible #atheism #relevance #thebibletellsmeso

That first CW may very well be a deal-breaker @bookstodon #exvangelical

#Evangelical #Exvangelical #Jesus #LGBTQ+

If there was no immersion did The Armorer’s batism of that kid at the sacred waters even count??

#TheMandalorian #Mandalorian #StarWars #Exvangelical

👋 any #Exvangelical or #ReligiousTrauma survivors.

How do you forgive your parents for instilling an existential fear of hell and the resulting trauma? Did you?

New episode out just now: Worship: Revisiting the Melodies of Our Past Give it a listen! #deconstruction #exvangelical https://almostheretical.com/episodes/worship-revisiting-the-melodies-of-our-past

Here's some verbal, rhetorical judo that I think we should consider as a weapon against #ChristianNationalism

"Religious Freedom" prescribed in the Constitution REQUIRES separation of church and state.

https://www.thesrf.org/

#ChristianNationalism is just #WhiteSupremacy in bible drag
#TTJ #Exvangelical #SWAJ