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Sep 11, 2018 7 tweets 2 min read Read on X
IDK who it was at @vicenews that greenlit whatever the hell I just watched but this is one of the most simultaneously laughable and dangerous things I've seen lately. This is evangelical ego-stroking at its finest.
First off, Matt Chandler was a "rising star" ten years ago and he's done nothing since then but put out a handful of shitty books regurgitating standard evangelical theology for people who already believe it
Second off, this was well before the #ChurchToo days or we would have had a field day with it, but please recall how "Village Church" tried to formally discipline a woman for annulling her marriage to a man who was caught with child pornography christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/may-we…
Third off, Chandler's explanation for why so many Evangelicals voted for Tr*mp was a veritable Olympic gymnastic routine in avoiding saying "they're racist"
"How do you think Democrats and media have isolated evangelicals?" LOL. Honestly at this point "the media" needs to stop doing these profiles and giving them all the visibility and fodder for their persecution fantasies their hearts could desire. Leave them be.
Finally, I have reached the Petty portion of my rant, but what is WITH evangelical men and the way that when they're about to say something egregiously sexist, homophobic and/or racist they start speaking really softly and drawing out the final syllables of words?!
That entire interview in the second half Chandler was talking JUST like John Piper in that podcast where he told a woman in an abusive marriage she needed to endure being "beaten for a season" & then take it to the church elders. Talking softly doesn't make it better my dudes

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Jan 27, 2018
I’m always suspicious when I hear people say that they “love God” more than they love their spouse or children. More often than not that means they love their idea of God more than they are willing to do anything that translates as ACTUALLY loving if it threatens that idea.
When I hear someone saying they love God more than they love their spouse or children, I hear someone saying they’re willing to throw me and their loved ones under the bus for the sake of their notions of what the divine “wants.”
I love the people I love because I see and recognize the divine IN them, and because I know that what the divine “wants” is for me to love others and myself because it is a part of us. What’s that verse? Love is the fulfillment of the law.
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