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Progressive Christians to “Take Back Their Faith” After Election
JuicyEcumenism ^ | 11/25/16 | Derryck Green

Posted on 11/25/2016 7:52:28 AM PST by Sam's Army

A week after the election, the Huffington Post published a blog entry in which Progressive Christians suggested what like-minded Christians should do in order to “take back their faith.”

Still reeling from the election in which Donald Trump was elected president, several progressive Christians pondered the necessary steps to draw a stronger contrast between their brand of kindhearted progressive Christianity, and the kind of conservative, evangelical Christianity that helped elect Donald Trump.

The responses were predictably representative of left-wing Christianity, which centered on re-emphasizing social justice issues and identity politics as the “loving,” compassionate, anti-Trumpian counterpart to the hate-filled Christianity of the right. Also predictably representative was the tone of unearned moral superiority in the responses of the progressive Christians interviewed – and progressive Christians in general.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; anotherchrist; anotherjesus; catholicvote; christianvote; evangelicals; godofthisworld; grievouswolves; heretics; homosexualagenda; progressive; religiousleft; trumptransition
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

“Take back their faith” means “Let’s pack a lunch and go picnic on the shore of the Eternal Lake of Fire!” ;-)


21 posted on 11/25/2016 8:10:46 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: Sam's Army

“progressive Christians”

Is that like “Fake News” only “Fake Christians”?

“REAL” Christians believe that the bible is the infallible word of God.

God’s Word is spoken aloud by God the Father, Spoken aloud by Jesus Christ the Son, revealed by the Holy Spirit, the remainder inspired (God breathed) by God Himself.


22 posted on 11/25/2016 8:12:56 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: kearnyirish2

Guess Rev. Lewis is going to get into a lot of fights.


23 posted on 11/25/2016 8:15:51 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Sam's Army
Well the FIRST thing they need to do is understand the meaning of the word "Faith".

Faith is an individual commodity vice a collective one.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

24 posted on 11/25/2016 8:23:35 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Sam's Army

how can pro abortion, pro sodomy “christians” take back, what they never had?


25 posted on 11/25/2016 8:31:14 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: elcid1970

“Progressive” churches fight a losing battle, and just morph into businesses; once we’re all saved there is no reason to wake up on Sundays (and even less to donate). A co-worker involved is such a “church” showed me a magazine decades ago; half the articles were dedicated to obtaining tax exemption for your organization. The rest was advertisements; no theology even mentioned/discussed...


26 posted on 11/25/2016 8:33:31 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Sam's Army
"All of those people are joining together right now, we’re… plotting and planning how to resist together… to me is the new religion, the new Christianity.”

Yeppers....that's the Progressives alright... Change..... Change everything about yourself.. your clothes, wear PJ's everywhere you go... Change your hair, purple maybe.. Your country and Constitution, socialism... Change your sex, be a girl or a boy like thing, if that's what you want... Change your bible, why you can even change your God... Surely Mother Earth will take care of all of us....

Take some advice....ANYTIME a suppositly man of God tells you that you must accept the LGBT as NORMAL and righteous tell THAT son to get the hell out of your church as quick as he (she) can find the door...!

MHO.......

27 posted on 11/25/2016 8:35:59 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Sam's Army
Well, liberal elites took back the Senate, the House, most Governorships, and State Legislatures... Why not Christianity? /s
28 posted on 11/25/2016 8:36:15 AM PST by GOPJ ("Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action"...Steve Bannon 2010 interview.)
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To: Sam's Army

Not much to take back


29 posted on 11/25/2016 8:40:48 AM PST by BRL
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To: Sam's Army

“Progressive Christian” is an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp” and “moderate Islam”.


30 posted on 11/25/2016 8:58:11 AM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Sam's Army

progressive Christian?

Isn’t that an oxymoron?

A true Christian is NOT progressive (democrat)


31 posted on 11/25/2016 9:03:07 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Sam's Army; NYer

The ‘taking back’ is actually a call for them to redouble their efforts at destroying Christianity and erecting a secular humanist religion in the image of ‘progressivism’ == “long live marx, engels, lenin & stalin.”


32 posted on 11/25/2016 9:03:41 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Sam's Army
There is no such animal as progressive Christianity. You are either a follower of Christ or you are not. Making up your own Jesus is idol worship. When someone carves a stick and worships it, he has made up a deity in his head and makes it god. There is the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, and Satan. There is no others. If you can't accept what Jesus has offered, you are lost forever. If you think Jesus would bless chopping babies up for cash, you have "missed the mark", as they say. If you think God changed His mind after Sodom and Gomorrah, you read a different Bible than I do. If you use politics to decide what God thinks, you don't understand the relationship. Jesus said,( in red writing), that you must hate your mother and father and a half dozen others to be worthy to follow Him. Of course He doesn't want you to hate anyone, but what He is saying is NOTHING should come between you and Him, even family. If you put politics ahead of Him, you cannot be His. He will tell you, I never knew you! There are many verses that prophesy these things in the Last Days.

Isa 4:1 speaks of this.

Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, "We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; Only let us be called by your name, To take away our reproach." In that day= last days. 7 women= women are churches 7= Christian churches. take hold of one man= Jesus. We will eat our own food= make up our own doctrine. And wear our own apparel= garments are righteousness and our righteousness is as filthy rags before God. Let us be called by your name to take away our reproach= I want to be called Christian, even though I call evil good, and good evil, being called Christian is catchier that being called the church of Satan or follower of Babylon.

If Jesus is King of Kings, following a political dogma over Christ won't work. Don't "imagine" what Jesus would do, but do what Jesus would do. Listening to false teachers will get you into hell.

33 posted on 11/25/2016 9:29:35 AM PST by chuckles
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To: Sam's Army

They don’t have to take anything back, just start a new Denomination and denominate it Progressive Christianity. Literally dozens of people will rush to join and proclaim their faith in the Process.


34 posted on 11/25/2016 10:03:13 AM PST by arthurus (One should not bank on the Democrats' inability to "find" any number of "uncounted" votes)
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To: Sam's Army

Title could also read as

‘anti-Christ minions saddened by election results’


35 posted on 11/25/2016 10:33:57 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Olog-hai

Beat me to it. Agree totally.


36 posted on 11/25/2016 10:40:13 AM PST by DPMD (o)
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To: Olog-hai

“Just what do “progressive Christians” have faith in?”

Progressive Christians don’t need Jesus Christ. They forgive themselves...


37 posted on 11/25/2016 10:50:01 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: Sam's Army

Progressive Christian is like live-and-let-live Muslim; apostate!


38 posted on 11/25/2016 11:03:15 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Sam's Army

What “faith?” The “faith of anything goes?”


39 posted on 11/25/2016 11:14:04 AM PST by fwdude (Stronger, To Get Her)
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To: Sam's Army

Oh good grief!!! PATHETIC


40 posted on 11/25/2016 11:26:32 AM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL!!!!)
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