The "Christian" supporters of Roy Moore - including many "Christian" churches, those who covered up for him even as he was elected, TWICE as an state Supreme Court justice are proof that whoever wrote Revelations scored a direct hit when he predicted the rise of the Antichrist. The Antichrist isn't a person, it's what we're seeing in Alabama, in places like Wisconsin, in Maine, all over the place as we can see even a pedophile predator elevated as if he were some figure of moral rectitude. In Alabama, the inverted morality of hatred, of regional chauvinism, replaces the Gospel of Jesus, everywhere where the Antichrist has power, the god of Mammon is the focus of worship and piety.
They aren't Christians, they don't follow the teachings of Jesus. I'll use the King James translation that they pretend to follow to make the point:
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
They want to elect him Senator.
"They aren't Christians, they don't follow the teachings of Jesus."
ReplyDeleteHas it not dawned on you yet that countless Christians don't follow the teachings of Jesus? And that they are no less Christians as a result?
Who appointed you the God that gets to decide whether countless self-professed Christians can call themselves that?
Three things foreign to your experience, the meaning of words, logical coherence and the integrity of reality.
DeleteI could also cite the Gospel in which Jesus predicted exactly this kind of thing happening, warning his followers about it, but that would strain you beyond your abilities.
"Has it not dawned on you yet that countless Christians don't follow the teachings of Jesus? And that they are no less Christians as a result?"
DeleteWho appointed you?
It was one of the earlier things I noticed about the neo-atheists, that they had to insist that the only "True Christans" were the worst of Christians, that those were the ones by whose actions Christianity was to be characterized.
DeleteThe last thing that Christian hating atheists want to see happen is for Christians to follow the teachings of Jesus, it would take all the wind out of their sails and discredit them.
I think they learned a lot of that from the Brit practice of attributing all evils to the Catholic church, which was always about the role that the established church played in propping up the British class system and almost not at all about really caring about the crimes and sins of the Catholic church.