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   John Shirley (johnshirley2023@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 04:16:08 JST John Shirley

   Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting JESUS as TOO LIBERAL (not a joke! Not The Onion!)

   "Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount and...'Where did you get those liberal talking points?'"

   "When the pastor would say, 'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ' ... The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore.' "When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, we're in a crisis."
   https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

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     The Skeptic's Book of Lists (skepticsbookoflists@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 04:20:26 JST The Skeptic's Book of Lists

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     @JohnShirley2023 I think Vonnegut pointed out right wing Christians always want the Ten Commandments on capitol grounds. But those are Jewish commandments. Jesus's beatitudes are HIS commandments. But not one wants those enshrined as the basis for American culture.

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     TheJaySunday (thejaysunday@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 23:43:38 JST TheJaySunday

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     @JohnShirley2023 We have the same right wing so-called christians in France. When Pope Francis told government leaders to host refugees, they (Laurent Wauquiez, Eric Ciotti) said "yeah but no", while at the same time claiming they are fighting for Christianity as France's cultural basis

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     Xenofact (he/him):jrbd: (revxenofact@dobbs.town)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 23:43:40 JST Xenofact (he/him):jrbd:

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     • Octorine

     @JohnShirley2023 @octorine and Jesus said unto them "Did I stutter?"

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     John Shirley (johnshirley2023@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 23:43:41 JST John Shirley

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     • Octorine

     @octorine They never understood Christianity in the first place.\

     They're idiots.

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     Octorine (octorine@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 23:43:45 JST Octorine

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     @JohnShirley2023 There was a throwaway bit in a recent Neal Stephenson book about a neoprotestant movement who burned crosses to show their rejection for Jesus because he was too woke.

     Didn't expect that bit to actually happen.

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 23:43:48 JST Oblomov

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     @JohnShirley2023 I doubt they're only noticing now. George Carlin was doing jokes about the un-Christianity of these “christians” 40 years ago.

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     Schroedinger (steveclough@metalhead.club)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 02:31:32 JST Schroedinger

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     @JohnShirley2023 So let me get this right: They have finally accepted that their teaching, their beliefs that they call Christian are not in libe with the teachings of Jesus.....

     .... And they have decided that Jesus must be in the wrong?

     And they see no problem with that?

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