@todd Many may not know that I used to be very involved in the evangelical Promise Keepers movement and devoutly Christian.
When folks ask me what caused me to leave all that I tell them I desired to love Jesus and that desire led me to learn and love all I could about him and his teachings. This led me to believe one very important thing…
Jesus would have had nothing to do with any of that.
@patrickrhone Wow thanks for sharing that. My current path has me in the Episcopal church after 40 years deep in fundamentalist evangelicalism. Trying to follow Jesus, and he wasn’t back there.
@cjhubbs I’ve got lots of thoughts on the matter. Most of them unpopular.
Basically, it boils down to this. If he were to come back today, he’d likely say, “Look, son, the instructions were simple. I gave you two things to do. Are you doing them?”
@patrickrhone Yup! And the evangelicals would say yes, but it turns out they’ve redefined those terms so much that their “love of neighbor” is all judgment and control, with fear their great motivator.
So glad to be out of that game.
@todd I think they also love the elevation of men and the subjection of women. Given the vocal hostility of liberal secular culture toward masculinity, I can imagine the appeal of traditions that make male supremacism holy.
