Christian Author Unleashes on Evangelical Trump Voters:

[elleng]

“You don’t like that I’ve “gotten political,” huh?”

'Rachel Held Evans is a progressive Christian blogger and author of the books Faith Unraveled, A Year of Biblical Womanhood and Searching for Sunday. Evans is also a prolific Facebook and Twitter poster who often stirs fiery debates in the comments sections with her posts.

In her most recent post that has people talking, Evans, who considers herself a former evangelical, calls out evangelical support for Trump as hypocritical and antithetical to the Christian life. “You don’t like that I’ve gotten political?” she asks in the post, answering herself with a strong defense of anti-Trump Christianity, and concluding with “Damn right, ' >>>

http://www.bluedotdaily.com/christian-author-unleashes-on-evangelical-trump-voters-you-dont-like-that-ive-gotten-political-huh/

[SHRED]

1. The biggest problem I see with Christianity

It's a patriarchal belief system.

I'll never abide with that.

[Coventina]

2. That's my issue with all the Abrahamic religions.

[SHRED]

3. Yep

Machoism has overrun them.

[prairierose]

4. me too.....n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

5. There are several places along the chain where I break with that kind of thinking.

Almost at the top level, it's a simple matter of evidence-based reasoning v. faith. Faith, almost by definition, is a short-circuit of critical thinking.

Then there is the idea of following someone's -anyone's- preprogrammed set of instructions as opposed to trying to work out a cogent morals and meaning interpretation of reality and life and how to happily move through both.

Add to that, when talking about the Western Monotheisms/Abrahamic religions, you're really looking at trying to run "software" anywhere from 1400 to 4000 years old, on the modern computer that is your brain. Large parts of which- rules pertaining to goats, slaves, uncooked pork, etc... mostly incompatible with modern planet Earth.

Then, of course, there are all the specific finer points of dogma or bullshit one could take issue with.

That said, I do accept that inside of what constitutes "Christianity" for many people there are ideas- shared with (and possibly originating from, to my mind) belief systems like Buddhism, ideas like universal compassion, seeing yourself in everyone else's eyes, empathy, selflessness, the gaining of broader perspective through transcendence of ego, right...

I don't begrudge anyone else whatever road they choose to follow, if they're decent to other people and stand up for the same.

[Coventina]

6. Agree with you. I was raised under the Christian cult of Gothardism.

So, as you can imagine, my family are all Christian (although none of them are still in the cult, although my father still admires Bill Gothard).

I have no trouble at all with people of any faith, as long as they don't try to impose it on me.

As for myself, I still have some sentimental attachment to Christianity, but more of the Quaker variety.

I'm also a bad Buddhist. (In that, I practice Buddhism, but I'm pretty bad at it).

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I fully admit, I'm making it up as I go along.

This week, I'm a discordian, hence the avatar.

hail eris!

[Coventina]

8. LOL! I recognized the golden apple!

I have some Discordian friends in the Pagan community.

[guillaumeb]

9. I have read her articles prior to this one.

Amazingly well crafted and exactly on target.