Posted on 08/21/2022 4:38:28 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In a column for ten Religion News Service, Christian author David Dark called out religious institutions that turn a blind eye to high-profile members of their congregations who are not only '"abusive" but also threaten or incite violence.
According to Dark, there are far too many political leaders who are using their Christianity as a shield as they make outrageous claims and preach hate in the name of Donald Trump, and the leaders of the churches that they ostensibly belong to should be calling them out and disassociating themselves from them.
To make his point, Dark singled out highly controversial, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who has whole-heartedly embraced "Christian nationalism" andrecently attacked the FBI after agents searched Mar-a-Lago for stolen documents.
"In recent weeks, as elected officials who once tweeted 'Back the Blue!' now target federal law enforcement while also tweeting Bible verses, my mind has turned to some of the public arrangements that make this publicly abusive behavior possible. There are of course political parties, donors, voters, but there are other institutions just as essential (if not more so) to successfully winning and wielding office. I refer here to churches. It’s time to think and speak more specifically about the behaviors they normalize," he wrote.
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According to Dark, there are far too many political leaders who are using their Christianity as a shield as they make outrageous claims and preach hate in the name of Donald Trump, and the leaders of the churches that they ostensibly belong to should be calling them out and disassociating themselves from them.
The left only wishes, and yet they spread these lies as if they were fact.
If there isn't a real crisis, they will invent one, just like hoax hate crimes.
The left is obsessed with Trump and the thought that he will lead a war of liberation against the fascists currently in control.
Milquetoast pastors (and there are many) approve.
Yeah, right.
Dark David sounds like a pathetic little man whose only god is the Media-Dem Party.
Another fine mess the Dems have gotten us into!
By not telling homosexuals the truth about how incredibly evil the homosexual lifestyle is, but, instead, by condoning it, churches are killing people (not to mention the eternal consequences).
I don't think they realize what they are doing because their feel-good virtue-signaling hides the evil of their deed.
I have an old friend who is a liberal and is in favor of condoning homosexuality and he refuses to even discuss the matter. His attitude is that people who don't embrace homosexuals and what they do are closed-minded, bigoted, and stupid.
> Another fine mess the Dems have gotten us into! <
Well played!
Shenanigans? Monkeyshines? You’re up to something.
Maybe it’s Donnie Dark, from the movie; Butterflies Are Free. 🙂
Not affiliated with any Denomination, Church, Congregation or anybody who prays daily.
Voices like Dark’s are increasingly heard in an echo chamber abandoned by those who believed obedience to authority should overlook tyranny.
Denying the voices of freedom by calling them violent insures the necessity of violence to overcome the enemies of freedom. Dark is just such an enemy of freedom.
[[who are not only ‘”abusive” but also threaten or incite violence]]
Dollars to donuts he didn’t single out Maxine waters for incitinG violence, or schumer, or any number of other ,iberal “high profile” peeps
I can hardly wait for this guy’s article on Muslim churches.
“Christian author David Dark called out religious institutions that turn a blind eye to high-profile members of their congregations who are not only ‘”abusive” but also threaten or incite violence. “
Just about “Christian” as “Christian” institutions that now condone same sex marriages.
These people live in a permanent fantasy world.
Sounds like Church membership is starting to push back on the radical infiltration that has been going on for 30 years.
Sounds good to me!
As I said God loves everyone, but God does NOT love everything we do. They are sins, and he hates sins.
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