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Everyone is Cool With Jesus... Except White Evangelicals
There’s a fairly wild development over the past few years within the White Evangelical ecosystem in America: a complete rejection of Jesus.
Labeling empathy toxic and declaring kindness woke, they’ve pivoted hard from his commands to love their disparate neighbors as themselves, rebranding the faith as a cruel, violent, exclusionary white supremacist theocratic behemoth that brutalizes the poor, excludes the immigrant, and preys upon the vulnerable.
Ironically, White American Evangelicals are the people least likely to embody the compassionate, loving namesake of their religious tradition…
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