This past week and through tomorrow, many self-styled evangelical Christians have been attending church services for Holy Week and tomorrow will be engaging in acts of outward piety and wearing their religiosity on their sleeves. Don't be fooled by the outward displays. 81% of these same people voted for a serial adultery and sexual aggressor, not to mention narcissist and pathological liar. Just as telling, they support the GOP agenda to destroy the social safety net and throw millions off of health insurance. In short, they are the antithesis of the true Gospel message. So why does the media continue to treat them with deference and undeserved respect? A piece in the Financial Times looks at how evangelical Christians have basically discarded their faith other than outward trappings of church going and protestations of religiosity and piety. In practice, these people make the Pharisees of the Bible look like upstanding, charity-filled philanthropists. Here's the money quote on their hypocrisy:
A Pew Research Center study in 2015 found that evangelical Protestants in the US were more likely to be divorced or separated than Catholics, Jews, Muslims or atheists.
“Jesus says four times in four different places: do not divorce,” Flynt says. “Does divorce bother evangelicals? No, absolutely not. Does adultery bother evangelicals? No, not really, because if so they wouldn’t have voted for Donald Trump. So what bothers them? Abortion and same-sex marriage. Beyond that, there’s no longer an agenda.”
Read the entire article which holds few punches. As I have said often, I no longer call myself a Christian. I want NOTHING to do with these foul and toxic hypocrites. A third of Millennials seem similarly inclined as they have walked away from organized religion.
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