I can see, then, why so many TRUE CHRISTIANS™ want to turn faith into a feeling rather than measuring it through compliance. This move eliminates compliance as a tangible measurement of faith. That’s good, since most Christians could never qualify as faithful that way.
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.
Evangelicals have long ago figured out ways to change whatever they want in the Bible.
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.
Well, well, well. The leader of The Village Church (TVC), Matt Chandler, has finally gotten caught doing something off-limits enough to his church board that he had to take a leave of absence. I’m sure the stories about it vastly minimize what actually happened, but nobody will be shocked to Read more
Thought stoppers are super-meaningful-sounding statements that don’t actually say anything substantive–and can’t really even be defined at all. The further into wackadoodlery a flavor of Christianity is, the more thought stoppers we’ll find there, and for good reason.
A COVID conspiracy theorist named Naomi Wolf got into a huge fight over COVID restrictions with the Black owner of a restaurant in a small town called Salem. Since then, the owner’s restaurant has been dealing with constant–and increasingly racist–attacks from other conspiracy theorists.
This J. Robert Smith fella definitely tells his TRUE CHRISTIAN™ audience what they desperately want to hear. (To put it in Christianese, he tickles their ears. And that’s not a good thing.)
For a couple of years now, Francis has taken increasingly-strong steps to rein in the founders of New Catholic Movement groups.
Today, let me tell you what Ammon Bundy has been up to lately in the town I will only call home for a few more weeks.