#evangelical
Wow.
Wow.
WOW.
(Image transcription/ A tweet from Bradley Onishi saying “we’ve been analysing the toxicity of White Evangelicalism for decades and they just tweeted it out” with a picture below seeming from the account “desiringGod” (their account title spells this as “Desiring God, in the full image from this tweet you can see a section saying "article by Joe Rigney, May 31st 2019”). The image focused on large text saying “The Enticing Sin of Empathy: How Satan Corrupts Through Compassion”/ end transcription).
In addition, after having researched this a little, you guys should read these articles:
Have you heard the one about empathy being a sin?
The original article. These articles. Make my blood boil. I cannot fucking fathom that there are people out there that believe this shit.
Reading this, it’s literally all mental acrobatics so they can justify clinging to their hatreds while dressing it up in a costume of righteousness
for my health, i don’t think i can read these, but the concept is too wild not to pass on
Abrahamic religions and their “sins”…
This is not “Abrahamic religions,” this is Christianity. Empathy and feeling the pain and experiences of others is a central tenet in Judaism, especially with regard to the Passover seder. Leave us the fuck out of this.
Same goes for Islam, which is built off compassion and the understanding of one another. Our prophet stresses a mercy for all creatures. Leave us out of this too thanks.
Good addition. And @the-library-alcove added in another reblog:
“This is also specifically Evangelical Christianity, too which is a branch of Christianity that evolved to legitimize white supremacy and black slavery. Not that other branches of Christianity are innocent, but Evangelical Christianity is the closest thing to a full fledged Religion Of Evil you’ll find in real life.”
Edgy atheists really need to stop equating evangelical Christianity to “Abrahamic religions” as if that’s remotely the same thing.
Dude I’m a follower of Jesus and this makes my blood boil (I don’t identify with White Evangelical Christianity in any way shape or form). Like literally, Compassion and Empathy are what Jesus was all about. Anyone claiming otherwise has lost the plot concerning what they are really worshiping.
Something I’ve noticed though…American Evangelical Christianity has become much less about the things Jesus actually stood for and much more about personal freedom (for themselves) and intolerance for others’ freedoms. One place I read someone actually commented “I can do whatever I want [regarding Covid, masks and vaccines] because Jesus means freedom.” Where’s that “freedom” when it comes to lgbtq+ love and womens’ rights, huh? Honey, I think you’ve forgotten to read your bible recently… That’s not what Jesus was about.
It has become fairly common to lump Judaism and Christianity together under a single banner. A “Judeo-Christian” religion, “Judeo-Christian” countries, “Judeo-Christian” philosophy.
This terminology is largely incorrect and is often perpetuated with the goal of giving credence to Christian philosophy and practices by pairing them up with the older Jewish religion through an appeal to antiquity fallacy that is meant to hold up Christianity and imply a positive relationship between Judaism and Christianity that simply has existed neither historically nor in the modern era.
Christian philosophy is not Jewish philosophy. Christianity separated from Judaism two thousand years ago and practitioners of Christianity and Christian institutions have done everything in their power to separate their practices from Jewish ones, their history from a Jewish one. Their methods? Everything from the rejection of Mosaic law and established Jewish holy days to political repression and murder.
The Judaism of today is very different from the Judaism that existed at the time that Christianity first emerged. Judaism has continued to develop over the past two thousand years and so any holdovers from Judaism that Christianity may have somehow retained despite forcibly throwing off all elements of Jewish practice would be almost unrecognizable in the face of the developments that have occurred since then. Rabbinical Judaism, Kabbalah, Jewish rationalism … none of these existed in their present form two thousand years ago. None of these things are Christian.
The United States has the largest Jewish population out of any country outside of Israel, and yet the Jewish population still makes up less than two percent of the country’s total population. This does not mirror the loving working relationship between Judaism and Christianity, between Jews and Christians, that proponents of the term “Judeo-Christianity” boast, especially when coupled with historic antisemitic discrimination in the United States. Other countries with even smaller Jewish populations certainly cannot accurately boast a Judeo-Christian history either.