I don't need an apology. I need to see an about-face turn: repentance. Rebuke the violent!
I am not the only person who grew up in the evangelical church to be completely appalled at evangelical moral failure in 2016. Recently, I have seen advertisements for the "American Gospel" videos platforming leaders who have minimized abuse of women, engage in it online or associate with those who do and who also made it pretty clear in 2016 they were voting for the boastful sexual abuser (suggesting all evangelicals should, too). Their god is made in their image: as abusive as them; it is a theological issue, a heresy that Christians must rebuke and leave, if we are to follow Christ. Such men don't care enough about life; that was made clear by many of their churches' responses to Covid19. They persecute US.
The "American Gospel" is their authoritarian heresy. The American fundamentalist's Gospel is brutal, abusive, callous, punitive, unforgiving, unrepentant, unresponsive, unreasonable, unkind, misogynistic, narcissistic, nationalistic, toxic and cruel.
BUT, I know in Whom I have believed. God is LOVE.
Contrary to what my parents may feel from my anger at the dangerous nonsense evangelicals have participated in through their votes and ongoing behaviors, I love my parents. I mourn them. I long for reconciliation with them. They don't understand grief and anger in response to evangelical sin; to them, that means I am unforgiving. Never mind the pain is raw and there has been little humble repentance, only further escalation of violent rhetoric. January 6th showed that evangelical heresy has taken US to a dark place.
A majority of evangelicals have made many of US feel very unsafe.
Because of evangelical foolishness, minimization of abuse (serious sin) and the disgusting minimization of the murder of neighbors (civil war) as even an option to benefit from, we have back-slidden as a democracy and are in the position where 40% of Americans, to include the majority of Republicans surveyed, could say they are ok with a coup.
This is what happens when you live so removed from the rest of the world that you don't know anyone but angry, fed up Christians like you. It would get real pretty quick when you'd be persecuting or even murdering fellow Americans because we won't fall in line with an extremist government you favor, but by all means, evangelicals, consider me back-slidden rather than hear: you have put our freedoms or even our lives in danger.
And to hell with that noise; it's nonsense. My God hates lovers of violence; I am at peace.
Abuse cannot end well. And I am free; we are not required to submit to further abuse.
We want to see repentance, but there's a time to shake the dust off our feet and move on in peace. I have done all I can; I'm not the only one hurting over this. There are many of US.
The God I love never forsakes God's kids when they are hurting; God is near in love, even and especially on the Cross. This is why we, like Jesus, can cry out to the holy God who is LOVE. Unfortunately, evangelicals have abandoned their next generations to a violent uncertainty and they are not sorry. They are unrepentant narcissists, the opposite of God.
God understands the hurt of those of us trying to raise kids and live quietly during this amoral cruelty. Jesus was also betrayed by loved ones. God gets it. But there must be repentance. The alternative is practically unthinkable.
Here is all to say to unrepentant evangelicals now:
The question for most of you evangelicals is why are you opposed to democracy, why are you embracing terrorists, why did you vote for an abuser twice, why are you terrible citizens, why are you willfully ignorant, why don’t you value good or at least decent character, why aren’t you willing to repent and what theology makes you think that abuse is ok?
You taught me that “even a child is known by their actions: whether their conduct is pure and right.”
Then you voted for a boastful sexual abuser.
January 6th was absolutely predictable: sin always ends in death.
There must be repentance.
The sovereignty of God is not an excuse for willful unrepentance in the face of obvious sin.
The kind of men who have led the evangelical world down this path of death, do not respect women. But Wisdom is personified as a woman. Read Proverbs 1.
Without repentance,
this ends with Christians being responsible for the murder of their neighbors, and based on their current behavior and attitude, they will also blame US for it.
Father, forgive them.
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