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alatabouleau · 7 months

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Für alle deutschsprachigen queer(freundlich)en Christ*innen würde ich unbedingt dieses Video von Rezo empfehlen. Er bringt das echt gut auf den Punkt, was mich an dieser Seite vom Christentum so aufregt. Den Schluss fand ich auch echt schön.🥰

For all Non-Germans, it's a video where a famous German youtuber, Rezo, reacts to radical christians on tiktok who tell you that you go to hell or whatever for being gay, who claim that real men go to war and modern music is demonic and all that jazz. He transfers a lot of good points about why this is bullcrap. ;)

#queer christian #christentum #german stuff #christianity today #bible scripture #I felt very seen by this video #There are too many Christians who judge unprovokedly #Progressive Christians unite!#for the heavenly kingdom #Youtube

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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christian fascism is here. don't let anyone tell you or try to convince you that voting democrat is the wrong choice. what little democracy we have left is on the ballot. before we can help anyone outside the united states, there must be democracy in america. without it, we are of no use to anyone anywhere.

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pastor-michael · 2 years

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The Sins of American Christianity

These are some of the sins of the cultural Christianity widespread in the United States:

Promoting American Exceptionalism – when Jesus says, “Whoever wants to be first must be the last and the servant of all.”

Promoting injustice toward the LGBTQ community in the name of religious righteousness - when Jesus says, “Do not judge and you will not be judged.”

Promoting the Prosperity Gospel – when Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor.”

Promoting Rugged Individualism – when Jesus tells the parable of the vineyard where all workers receive the same wage no matter how many hours they worked.

Idolizing the Second Amendment – when Jesus says, “whoever lives by the sword, dies by the sword.”

Denying unconscious, systemic racism – when Jesus says, “Stay awake!”

Baptizing consumerism – when Jesus says, “Do not accumulate treasures on earth.”

Promoting public prayer – when Jesus says, “When you pray, go into your secret room.”

Promoting Christian religious freedom at the expense of the religious freedom of others – when Jesus says, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Using the Word of God as a weapon – when Jesus says that all God’s words are summed up in one word: love.

The sins of cultural Christianity have driven people from church. They have driven people from the Bible. They have made people ashamed to be associated with Christianity.

But there is hope for Christianity. It is the Spirit of Jesus within those who claim to be Christians, empowering them to see the truth and follow in his way. It is the voice of Jesus calling to those who have left Christianity to do the same.

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psithurism-elisheba · 2 years

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If you wanna learn what Christianity is beyond the homophobic, racist and sexist Bible thumpers portray it is my messages and asks are always open.

#christian #indigenous #Christiangirl #pro choice christian #progressive christianity #lgbt christian #lgbtq community #lesbian #queer Christian #religion #religious #autistic Christian #Methodist #Uniting church #roe Vs Wade #abortion #abortion rights

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rev-krissy · 2 years

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And will stand up for reproductive freedom in 2022 and beyond…

And will resist oppression and evil forever (it’s in our baptismal and membership vows)!!

#ucc #united church of christ #progressive christianity #my church #f*^~ the scotus

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mr-jackalope · 1 year

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Migrating from Twitter in case it goes under

Hello anyone who sees this. I'm Marcus (mr_jackalope) from Twitter. I'm a seminarian at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and am pursuing ordination in the United Church of Christ. i have lots of interests but I mostly like to talk about progressive theology and spirituality. I am also newly trained in the Christian folk magic/healing tradition of Pennsylvania German Braucherei and I enjoy talking and learning about folk magic practices in general.

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#progressive christianity #progressive theology #united church of christ #braucherei #christian magic #twitter migration #christian twitter #queer christian #folk magic

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kuramirocket · 2 years

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Industry’s voracious but volatile demand for labor was met by immigration to the United States on a grand scale. Fifteen million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1890 and 1914, and nearly 70 percent of the new arrivals were Catholics, Jews, and Orthodox Christians from southern and eastern Europe.

The brutal reestablishment of white supremacy in the American South confronted African Americans with disenfranchisement, debt peonage, and organized racial terror. Native Americans, decimated when Europeans colonized America, were decimated again by coerced relocations, carried out by a postbellum US Army in need of new missions. Egged on by agitators like Dennis Kearney, white mobs attacked Chinese immigrants, accusing them of undercutting the American workingman.

The women who chose to live among the immigrant poor in city slums called themselves “settlers,” not neighbors.

Richard T. Ely and his colleagues, John R. Commons and Edward A. Ross, campaigned to bar immigrants they judged racially inferior.

The first generation of progressive scholars and activists who wielded these views, including those previously named, were born largely between the mid-1850s and 1870.

Nearly all descended from old New England families. More often than not, progressives were the children of Protestant ministers or missionaries.

The progressives’ urge to reform America sprang from an evangelical compulsion and they unabashedly described their purposes as a Christian mission to build a Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

The American Economic Association (AEA), founded in 1885 by these same prpgressives' embodied the social gospel’s distinctive amalgam of liberal Protestant ethics, the evangelizing activism of pious, middle-class reformers. Clergyman Josiah Strong praised the AEA for its Christian political economy. Of the AEA’s fifty-five charter members, twenty-three were clergymen.

Richard T. Ely was the the prime mover behind the AEA’s establishment.

Just as Christian salvation was increasingly socialized, so too was sin.

“God works through the State,” Ely professed, more so than through any other institution, including, he implied, the church.

One of the AEA’s leaders was Henry Carter Adams whose father, Ephraim Adams, was a Congregationalist missionary who had moved his family to the wilderness so that they could dedicate their lives to building a Christian west of the Mississippi.

Economics, Adams wrote to his father "is work which a follower of Christ may do.”

Charles Richmond Henderson, was a minister who served as the University of Chicago's chaplain. Just as Ely regarded the state, so Henderson regarded the new social sciences, as a God-given instrument of Christian economic reform.

Later, even as they secularized their Christian idiom, they did not abandon the evangelical idealism driving their reform mission.

Source: Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

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kota-corner · 25 days

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New sideblog @christians-united-by-love is up and running!

#christians united by love #sideblog #progressive christian #progressive christianity #inclusive christianity #text post #💫kota text post💫

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pastormike1976 · 1 month

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Reflections on I Peter 4

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bristolchurch · 2 months

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Faiths in Contrast: Christianity vs. Latter-day Saints

In comparing Christian theology with LDS (Latter-day Saints) beliefs, it’s imperative to recognise significant disparities in theological frameworks and interpretations of core Christian doctrines. While on the surface, both Christianity and Mormons may use similar terminology, such as “God,” “Jesus,” “atonement,” and “grace,” the underlying meanings and narratives diverge…

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opencommunion · 6 months

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as more westerners realize it's wrong to stay silent about genocide, I see more and more posts from western "progressive" Christians to the effect of "we should support Palestine because there are Palestinian Christians." I can't believe I even have to point out how profoundly Islamophobic and self-centered that attitude is. I understand you might feel it's the only way you can reach a right wing Christian audience, but right wing Christians are not going to view Palestinians as human regardless of their faith. I understand you might feel that your Christianity-focused blog should make Christianity-focused posts, but as Christians we all need to make interfaith solidarity a priority. and above all, we need to follow the example set by Palestinians when we fight for justice in Palestine. Palestinians view themselves as one united people regardless of faith, and so should we. personally this is my model for what love of neighbor looks like:

#palestine

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edenfenixblogs · 5 months

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For the record, the man accused in the shooting of the three Palestinian men was NOT JEWISH.

Please do not allow this terrible event to contribute to antisemitism or retaliatory Islamophobic violence.

James J. Eaton, the accused, is a white Christian man whose mother thought he was decorating a Christmas tree she gave him at the time of the shooting.

Many of us—Jews/Muslims/Israelis/Palestinians/Arabs—have been BEGGING those who claim to be our allies to dispense with violence and violent rhetoric against all of our communities precisely because we all know that these kinds of things happen as a result.

When I say that the rhetoric and tone you use online and the dogwhistles you espouse thoughtlessly can get people killed, this is what I’m talking about.

We all know that you want to be on the “right” side of history. But you have to want peace for all MORE than you want the self righteously fulfilling feeling of being right. This is not a game. People in your country are dying because people who claim to want to help are hurting everyone instead.

The only sides in this conflict are peace vs war, love vs hate. We must all be united in our desire for peace, not by our (self-proclaimed)“righteous” fury.

If you are demonizing Israel and Israelis and Jews or Muslims and Arabs and Palestinians, you are not only on the wrong side. You are not even on a side that can possibly be right.

Your personal political identity is irrelevant. Being a leftist/liberal/progressive doesn’t mean you’re immune to being hateful and Islamophobic and antisemitic. Being right wing/conservative doesn’t meant you are, either.

So, once again, I’m BEGGING YOU ALL: please tone down your rhetoric. Learn what dog whistles affect all parties in this conflict and then stop using them. Elevate the voices of people working for peace, not victory. And spend more time learning from those more familiar with the conflict than you do from those speaking most loudly about it.

And for the love of G-d. Please learn to interrogate a source for credibility before sharing it.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #islamophobia #Islamophobic violence #Palestine #Vermont shooting #I/P #i/p conflict #inflammatory rhetoric #physical assault #gun violence #gun violence TW #Palestinians #hate speech #hate crimes tw #hate crimes #jewish muslim solidarity

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pastor-michael · 2 years

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How to Read the Bible

You don’t have to be a scholar to understand what the Bible says. But you do have to be a person of good will, seeking to grow in faith, hope, and love.

Then you will prioritize certain scripture passages.

And you will dismiss other passages.

You will take some passages literally and understand some symbolically.

You will not use the Bible to prove you are right and others are wrong. You will not use it to scare people or threaten people.

You will search for passages that inspire you, help you to trust in God, and help you to grow in compassion.

You will use the Bible to find common ground between your faith tradition and other faith traditions.

If you are Christian, you will use the Bible to understand the heart and mind of Jesus and seek to share his heart and mind.

You will laugh at humor. You will puzzle over paradox. You will find yourself in stories.

In the lives of ancient people, you will find meaning for your own.

You will never find a reason to hate anyone.

All of this depends on good will. On the desire to grow in faith, hope, and—especially—love.

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spacelazarwolf · 2 years

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actually i’m not done rambling about this.

EDIT: IF YOU TRY TO BRING UP ZIONISM OR HARASS JEWS IN THE NOTES YOU’RE GETTING BLOCKED.

people have been harassing jews out of liberal, leftist, and queer spaces for decades, blaming us for what’s going on in israel/palestine, falling for christian supersessionism and labeling us as antiquated, mocking our laws and culture, telling us we can’t possibly be progressive if we’re religious and that we’re not actually jewish if we’re not religious, refusing to acknowledge the unique discrimination and oppression we face all over the world, including the united states. i have dozens of stories about how horrible leftists in particular have treated me as a jew. so to see people flouncing around on social media saying “just convert to judaism and then you can get abortions!!!!!!” is not only mindnumbingly stupid but a slap in the fucking face. y’all have never shown up for jews. i have been consistently and deeply let down by non jewish leftists, specifically white non jewish leftists, to the point where i really only feel comfortable interacting with other left leaning jews or in spaces that are at least partially under the jurisdiction of jewish voices.

the fucking audacity y’all have after the barrage of harassment jews received all over the internet and in real life - primarily from white leftists and liberals - after what happened in gaza in 2021, straight up invoking dual loyalty, blood libel, and every other fucking antisemitic trope in the book to the point where i and other jews had to stop wearing things that made us identifiable as jewish in public, for you to now turn around and use us as a tool in your plan to liberate yourselves that won’t even fucking work because this country doesn’t recognize freedom of religion for anyone but conservative christians, that is just fucking laughable.

#jewish #jumblr #goyim shut up challenge

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rev-krissy · 1 year

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My congregation shared the writing of the Advent devotional this year. I’ll tell you the same thing I say in the intro, “take what you can use and leave the rest knowing it was offered in love.”!

Download it free here:

#advent #devotional #united church of christ #ucc #progressive christianity

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kuramirocket · 2 years

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German university professors in the 1870s and early 1880s occupied a social space as yet nonexistent in the United States: the academic scientist of society, with political influence and social standing.

The progressives returned from Germany with their evangelical zeal to redeem America still hot.

They led graduate students in German-style research seminars.

The AEA was formed to exclude other claimants to economic knowledge by making them outsiders and amateurs.

Source: Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

#Illiberal Reformers: Race Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era #usa #united states #history 📚#germany #europe #religion #christianity #evangelical #AEA #American Economic Association

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