Last weekend’s tragedy at Club Q, when an attacker killed two bartenders and three customers and shot 17 others inside the nightclub before two patrons intervened, in several ways united
Last weekend’s tragedy at Club Q, when an attacker killed two bartenders and three customers and shot 17 others inside the nightclub before two patrons intervened, in several ways united
back a little bit, the line of christians personally, i feel like we can t have this conversation today without acknowledging in the midst of this perceived victim hood, and white evangelicalism that has been weaponized that we have seen an extraordinary increase on actually attacks on jews, and the anti-semitism that is on the rise, and, you know, other hate crimes that are on the rise. and so, i would ask, i guess, my fellow christians, is that the country you want to live in? is that what jesus died for? i don t think so. i think this is basic humanity. you don t have to be a christian to know right from wrong, and i just, i m totally demoralized, you know, as an american, as a human, as a black woman and a christian, to see people treat each other in ways that your kindergarten teacher would have
something. the researcher, ryan burj, said white evangelicalism is republican, and republican is evangelicalism. there is an element distinct from religion. there is also research that says white evangelicals, people who call themselves white evangelicals, now go to church, on average, less than once a month. in other words, a majority of white evangelicals are going to church less than once a month. what that indicates is they re not talking as much about a religious lifestyle even anymore, even though they label themselves as intensely religious. we re talking of a social, cultural, and political lifestyle. if you are going to identify yourself and put yourself forward as evangelical, as one of your primary identities in your life, then there is a basic expectation that there are standards of contact, some
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