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#christians

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EpiscoGrrl

Today #TheDisciplesWay is reflecting on 2 verses: Ephesians 4:25, 31-32 and Colossians 3:14-15. Combined, these verses offer a radical call to action: telling us to put away bittterness, anger, wrath, noise, & lying, while putting on charity & peace. That sounds almost impossible in this day & age. Yet, as Rev. Stephen Smith reminds us, the height of the Roman Empire, when these epistles were written, was not that much different. One might even argue those days were more dangerous (& potentially fatal for #Christians ) than our own. That doesn’t make the call easier to hear or to practice. The call for peace, charity, mercy, & forgiveness, however, is not unique to these verses. So it is an important call to heed. Perhaps especially so right now when so many are struggling with hurt & anger. We need to focus on treating ourselves & each other with radical kindness. As Nadia Bolz Weber pointed out the call to share forgiveness with our enemies & ourselves is the worst #GoodNews ever

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Preston MacDougall

@tg9541 They get it from the “Atlas Shrugged” novels written by #Russian emigrée #AynRand (where the ‘hero’ is a character named John Galt). Her hyper-rationalist #Objectivist philosophy (#empathy is a sin) was perversely melded into the ethos of so-called fundamentalist #Christians already worshipping #prosperity in the #UnitedStates.

I saw an excellent essay on this #American phenomenon entitled “Who is #Jesus Galt?” that has since been ‘disappeared’. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Resist#DoNotComply
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Leigh Silvester

Today is the first time I spotted a phrase to describe the 'Christian' Fundamentalist trying to take over the USA in Trump's wake.

Others may already have used it but this is the first time I've seen it.

Faux Right Christians

#FauxRightChristians

Works as they are not actually #christians

I do not subscribe to the view that all Christians are bad, or that religion is the cause of all wars. Reductive nonsense that comes out of the playground school of philosophy. I am not a christian but have some friends who are. One is about to retire from being a bishop.

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Rev. Charles Browning

My daughter got this as part of a children’s ministry this evening (from a different church than our parish—it’s supposed to look like the little flames that alighted on the disciples at Pentecost). Preaching good news to all creation? Gotta be honest, that reads to me like taking care of the environment, reducing our carbon output, treating #ClimateChange like the actual, real thing it is. This is something #Jesus commissioned His #Church to do. It’s past time more #Christians listened.

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EpiscoGrrl

youtube.com/watch?v=oh3elQQ_9q I am not a fan of conspiracy theories. That said, the #EpiscopalChurch seems like an obvious target for #ChristianNationalists We are accepting, affirming, & are #AllAboutLove In other words, we are #Christians & strive to follow Jesus. Which is why I’m attending today’s #EpiscopalAdvocacyDay at my state #Legislature As #BishopBudde points out: it is #TimetobeBrave & #ActionsMatter #WordsMatter #WeMatter & we will not go quiet into the looming national night the current regime wants to force upon us

YouTubeMAGA Christian Nationalists Want Gov’t To Take Your ChurchBy Rev Ed Trevors
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EpiscoGrrl

According to #TheDisciplesWay the #FourthWeekofLent is about #Service This is a tricky one. #Christianity is primarily about serving others, at least that’s what the gospels, including today’s lesson (Matthew 20:26b-28) tells us. It’s not something many of us, who call ourselves #Christians do very well. Instead of looking into the souls of others & celebrating the image of the Divine in them, we seem to be turning away from anyone who does not show us God exactly as we perceive God to be & we are totally willing to force everyone, including God, to be what we think He should be. The problem is: that’s not God, nor is it what we are called to be as Christians. Jesus changed the world by emptying himself for the sake of others. We, in contrast, are trying to hold onto everything we have & grab ever more. We will succeed in changing the world, but not in a good way, because we want to be at the center of everything. We have forgotten, or never learned, how to be selfless like God is.

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Rev. Charles Browning

In terms of theology, I’m a universalist (I believe that everyone *IS* saved by virtue of Jesus; to me this is the only logical conclusion to reading the gospels). Obviously, this is not the “conventional” view among #Christians at large. So I wonder the extent of the “conventional” view of salvation, rooted in “us” and “them” language, has informed the US policy on basically everyone? Is this just Puritanism’s chickens coming home to roost? 1/

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Lanie Molinar Carmelo

To other #Christians, especially those who are #blind, are there any #accessible #Bible study tools or resources you'd recommend? One of my first assignments for #college at #ColoradoChristianUniversity is about fears relating to college, and I have to find Bible verses on fear. I've tried a few different websites like #BibleGateway and Youversion, but I'm having a hard time with the search functionality or there are #accessibility issues, so I'm wondering what tools others use.
#Christian #Christianity #BibleStudy #CCU
@christians @mastoblind @main

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Impish4249

It's time for my periodic reminder that #MAGA completely ignore the rather dire warning that #Jesus gave all #Christians in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats which you can read in full in the link below.

I'm not here to disagree with your religion or lack thereof, only to call out the utter #hypocracy of the far right #Republicans falsely claiming to be doing God's work.

biblegateway.com/passage/?sear

Meanwhile here's a paraphrase from a Pastor I respect.

Image quotes Reverend Benjamin Cremer paraphrasing the Parable of to he Sheep and the Goats from the Book of Matthew in the Christian New Testament. "I was hungry" and you cut $1 Billion in funding to schools and food banks. "I was sick" and you worked to gut Medicaid, depriving me of healthcare. "I was a stranger" and you defined my humanity by legal status. "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me."-Jesus
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earthling

Christians in Syria slaughtered in their homes

According to Asia News, a Vatican-affiliated news agency that reports on Christian communities, more than 800 people, including women, children and priests, were slaughtered in their homes solely because they were Christian.

However, according to the Iraqi Christian Foundation, the death toll is 1,800. It alleges that entire villages are being slaughtered.

newsnationnow.com/religion/chr

#Syria
#Christians

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump's authoritarian ambitions are well in the open now. This speech was also given on the evening before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent in the Christian tradition. We note that Republican members of Congress, most of whom claim to be followers of Jesus, had advance copies of the speech and knew it was filled with lies, and yet none felt the conviction to stand up for the truth."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Musk #Trump #Christians #authoritarianism
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convocation.substack.com/p/tru

The Convocation · Trump's State of the Union and the Season of LentBy Robert P. Jones
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Impish4249

@wdlindsy
There are many people who call themselves #Christians & ignore parts of the #NewTestament. Let's look at the story of Ananias & Sapphira in the book of Acts. This tells the story of the earliest Christian community where the believers #shared all of their #wealth, clearly they were #communists. But Ananias & Sapphira conspired to sell some property & keep some of the money for themselves. They both were struck dead. #Jesus isn't the problem it's us Christians.

biblegateway.com/passage/?sear

Bible GatewayBible Gateway passage: Acts 4:32-5:10 - New International VersionThe Believers Share Their Possessions - All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”),
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William Lindsey :toad:

These foundational lies that inhabit the thinking of key sectors of Christianity in the US lead right to the chief liar pouring out lies last evening as two out and proud white Christian men stood behind him cheering and clapping as he lied and lied and lied.

And they lead right to the choice of more than half of white Christians to vote for that chief liar three times now, setting in motion so much cruelty for so many.

#Trump #Christians #capitalism #slavery
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