Posted on 11/16/2020 1:32:46 PM PST by Jonty30
ohn Pavlovitz, who pastors North Raleigh Community Church in North Carolina, writes a heartfelt letter to white evangelicals:
Dear White Evangelicals,
I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done.
They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why:
They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.
For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character—all without cause or evidence. They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.
And through it all, White Evangelicals—you never once suggested that God placed him where he was, you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities, you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance, you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy,your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership,your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him,you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.
You violently opposed him at every single turn—without offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. You jettisoned Jesus as you dispensed damnation on him.
And yet today, you openly give a "mulligan" to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filth—that the mind boggles. And the change in you is unmistakable. It has been an astonishing conversion to behold: a being born again. With him, you suddenly find religion.With him, you’re now willing to offer full absolution.With him, all is forgiven without repentance or admission.With him you’re suddenly able to see some invisible, deeply buried heart.With him, sin has become unimportant, compassion no longer a requirement.With him, you see only Providence.
And White Evangelicals, all those people who have had it with you—they see it all clearly.
They recognize the toxic source of your duality. They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities. They see that you aren’t interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus.They see that you aren’t burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself.They see that all you’re really interested in doing, is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it.They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesus—not dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.
And I know you don't realize it, but you're digging your own grave in these days; the grave of your very faith tradition.
Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage. Yes, you've gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary power—but you've lost a whole lot more. You've lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness.You've lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation.You've lost any semblance of Christlikeness.You've lost the plot.And most of all you've lost your soul.
I know it's likely you'll dismiss these words. The fact that you've even made your bed with such malevolence, shows how far gone you are and how insulated you are from the reality in front of you.
But I had to at least try to reach you. It’s what Jesus would do.
Maybe you need to read what he said again—if he still matters to you.
Raleigh should have been your first clue......liberal bastion
Just a common, run of the mill apostate
“You violently opposed him....” Interesting use of the word “violent” in this context. Like 0bama sychophants are violently oblivious to his relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernie Dhorn, and how he played it off as just knowing them as a couple of people on the block. That’s reason enough for my contempt.
To the left, everything must be about race or oppression, especially when it is not.
Thank you and bye now, John Pavlovitz. “)
Says the racist psychopath.
PRO ABORTION supporting Pastor. FLAMING Liberal. Needs to be SAVED.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Seems we’re doing just fine in Africa helping out there with food, helping built shelters, getting clean water going; but of course it’s all just selfishness on our part (/sarc)
Bathhouse Barry had more validity to it than the FBI-DNC-Communist Party rumor of a Trump Pee Pee video.
Both phony baloney fake news.
Why argue with a fraud ‘pastor’ who worships liberalism over The Sovereign Lord?
He clear is a reprobate who has never read the Bible.
Hell is full of folks like him.
This faggot pastor would be alright with White Christian genocide too.
He’s insane!
I did not know there were different colors of evangelicals. I wonder if Jesus is aware of this....
For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his characterâall without cause or evidence. They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.
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Because the man is a empty suit and a degenerate. If you want to defend him as true to Secular Humanism, then go ahead. You can get away with it no prob, but if you’re trying to pass this guy off as a man respectful of Judeo-Christian values and the rule-of-law, then don’t waste your time. It’s a lost cause.
Doesn’t matter
the guy is a Class 1 a-hole....no matter his skin color.
If you read his demented writings you’ll see over & over again how he tries to reason with sinful behavior and shameful lifestyles.
No Christian would ever justify sin. These libs like him and Jen Hatmaker always justify evil.
Matthew 7:16-20
“You violently opposed him [Obama] at every single turn without offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. “
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Hypocrite much? Just change the ‘him’ to Trump .... not a single ounce of grace given him by this so-called pastor [& the Left], or whatever he is.
Total gaslighting and selective quoting .
The problem with Obama had nothing to do with his race.
His policies were horrendous .
I make no illusions of Trumps moral perfection .
He is far from perfect, but has achieved more progress than any Presiddnt in decades .
And Donald Trump is not my spiritual leader or role model .
But he has done an awesome job as President.
It’s odd how these lefties somehow try to say that those of us of faith somehow have anointed Trump as a Christian role model.
Where was he the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack?
He still won’t say.
Pavlovitz is a rotting pile of lying dogsqueezins.
A dedicated servant of Moloch and The Great Deceiver.
One minor change ... regarding Obama being an ‘angel of death’ ... I would suggest he’s more a ‘fallen’ angel.
Fallen angels (who are also commonly known as demons) work for evil purposes that lead to destruction in the world, in contrast to the good purposes of the missions that faithful angels fulfill. Link: https://www.learnreligions.com/who-are-fallen-angels-demons-123840
Johnny "MolochBoy" Pavloshitz: Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage. Yes, you've gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary powerâbut you've lost a whole lot more. You've lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness.You've lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation.You've lost any semblance of Christlikeness.You've lost the plot.And most of all you've lost your soul.
See how the evil of Moloch and the Great Deceiver pour out of this punk's lying mouth...
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