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@profagagne
Jun 13, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1/ Then it's best for this kind of preaching to die. Which Bible is the "inspired, inerrant word of God"? The Bible as we know it today was collated from thousands of manuscripts (mss). Just for the New Testament, there are 25,000+ mss in various languages.
#ChristianAtlFacts
2/ There are 8,000+ Greek mss of parts of the N.T. alone, and literally thousands of variants (differences) between all the N.T. mss that we've found; the estimate is that there are more variants between the mss of the N.T. than there are words in the N.T.
#ChristianAltFacts
3/ Evangelicals quote 2 Tim. 3:16 as proof-text: "All Scripture (is) inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness". The writer is NOT referring to the N.T.; there is no New Testament at that time.
#ChristianAltFacts
4/ The "Scripture" in 2 Tim. 3:16 is the Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament). There is also another way to translate the text judging from the Greek: "All Scripture inspired by God (is) useful for teaching...". The implication: not all Scripture is inspired.
#ChristianAltFacts
5/ In Greek, "graphe" = "writing"; "Scripture" has an air of canonicity. I'm not saying people should stop reading the Bible; rather, they should be aware that they are not reading "THE" Bible, but "a" Bible, similar to a version read in 4th-5th century C.E.
#ChristianAltfacts
6/ People need to be cautious in how they interpret "biblical truths" for their everyday lives. "The" Bible is a culturally and historically situated collection of texts; evangelicals dangerously engage in a "fundamentalist cultural appropriation" of the Bible.
#ChristianAltFacts
7/ When reading "the" Bible, people must also learn to resist its seemingly "universal truths"; biblical writers were concerned with their own issues and beliefs, and lived according to their worldview, which are all far removed from our current realities.
#ChristianAltFacts

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Sep 15, 2018
1/ This summer, after many years, we moved back to the south shore of Montreal. This afternoon, I decided to drive down memory lane to revisit the two churches where I pastored 20 yrs ago. Some of my students don’t believe I once was an evangelical pastor. I’m glad it’s all over!
2/ Out of curiosity, I might one day attend one of their Sunday morning meeting, incognito of course. Things probably haven’t changed. In the Pentecostal church there’s probably still a lot of emotional singing and preaching, and the Baptists still likely focus on Sunday school.
3/ My wife and I are really glad that both our sons were spared from being indoctrinated into our fundamentalist way of life. We left the pastorate and church when they were very young, when I started university in 1999. Thank goodness they don’t recall anything from that time.
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Aug 29, 2018
1/ Read @C_Stroop’s insightful take on the issue “fake Christians”. People should note that anyone slightly familiar with the history and literature of Early Christianities will realize that there is no such thing as normative Christianity in terms of beliefs and practices.
2/ This is why we should be speaking of “Christianities” and not “Christianity”. Even the New Testament authors display the various beliefs and practices of Jesus followers in their writings, as well as the conflicts that existed among believers in Jesus at that time.
3/ Some writers of the New Testament label their enemies as being “not from among them” (See 1 John for example), due to what they considered being another kind of “Christology”, but who’s to say which Christology was the most authentic and true?
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Aug 18, 2018
1/ Well for some evangelicals, gifting is far more important than character. My recent threads on sexual abuse cover-ups confirmed this fact. Someone recently shared with me the story of a twisted sexual misconduct cover-up in a French-speaking evangelical church here in Quebec.
2/ A couple of years ago, the lead pastor of an evangelical congregation instructed his entire leadership staff to cover-up the moral failings of another pastor. There were repeated cases of sexual misconduct, targeting vulnerable women in this church over the years.

#ChurchToo
3/ The pastor said that there was too much at stake (government funding programs, public reputation, influence on other churches tarnished, etc.). There are consequences in taking appropriate actions against leaders who have breached ethical standards.

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Aug 17, 2018
1/ The RCC is a highly structured religious organization; priests are supposed to be accountable to some kind of authority. Despite all of this, it did not prevent the massive cover-up of sexual abuse cases that has been going on for several years! Now, what about evangelicals?
2/ There are many evangelical churches that are non-denominational; this means that they are managed independently, without the oversight of leaders OUTSIDE the church. Some pastors are therefore not accountable to anyone; they often go unchallenged in their own congregations.
3/ This lack of accountability can be even more problematic than what is found in the RCC. The fact that many of these churches are not part of any denominational structure, makes it even more difficult for victimes to speak out. Who has the authority to confront abusive pastors?
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Aug 14, 2018
1/ Be it in the Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses or in the Evangelical movement, these church leaders don't treat cases of sexual abuse & misconduct as a crime but as a "sin". For them, "sin" needs to be dealt with internally, not in public. Abusers are thus protected.
2/ I was interviewed on the reasons behind sexual abuse cover-ups in the JWs last March on @CTVW5. Their prescription for "sin" is to adopt a "biblical worldview"; this prevents and discourages victims of abuse to alert the authorities.

#SexualAbuse

3/ I also provided some details concerning the reasoning behind the cover-up of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct cases in the Evangelical church this short @YouTube clip.

#SexualAbuse #ChurchToo

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Aug 7, 2018
1/ I was recently asked by James Scaminaci III (@4GWDOTDOTDOT) to comment on this interesting report by Francesca Tripodi, “Searching for Alternate Facts: Analyzing Scriptural Inference in Conservative News Practices”. Here are some of my thoughts.

datasociety.net/output/searchi…
2/ Tripodi argues that conservatives apply “practices learned in Bible study… to media interpretation.” (p.6) In other words, conservatives engage in “the same type of close reading that they were taught in Bible study to mainstream media.” (p.3)
3/ Tripodi refers to what she calls the practice of “scriptural inference.” Conservatives “critically interrogate media messages in the same way they approach the Bible, focusing on specific passages and comparing what they read, see, and hear to their lived experiences.” (p.6)
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