{"id":11300,"date":"2019-11-04T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:46:18","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11300","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That\u2019s why all of us who are Christians certainly see this is not a political skirmish. This is a battle between good and evil<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Robert Jeffress<\/a>, on impeachment<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Granted, Jeffress is a Southern Baptist and can’t reasonably be expected to say things that aren’t painfully stupid, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t typical of evangelicals; he is. The modern world — automation, artificial intelligence, humanism — has left them behind. Though we are mindful of looming problems arising from those technologies and philosophical shifts — in employment, for instance, and the corresponding distribution of resources — people like me tend to welcome the changes; they signal a safer workplace and less violence in the world. But it is also a world incomprehensible to people baffled by the steady decline of the Abrahamic faiths; modernity is, to them, an existential threat. Thus … Trump.<\/p>\n

I was looking-up a quote from Nietzsche’s The Antichrist<\/i> a few days ago, and noted a striking fact: In a lot of places, some variation of ‘Trumpism’ or similar can be painlessly substituted for ‘Christianity’ and its variants.<\/p>\n

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It is indecent nowadays to be a Christian [Trump supporter].<\/p>\n

Christianity [Trumpism] is the revolt of all things that crawl on their bellies against everything that is lofty; the gospel of the ‘lowly’ lowers …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so on.<\/p>\n

And the implication of that observation holds: 1st<\/sup>-century Christianity was<\/i> a cult and often corrupt and self-serving, and recall how casually the Christians turned-on their former co-religionists following the failure of the Jewish Rebellion. Trumpism is not a new religion — at least, not exactly<\/i> — but it is a social movement that appeals to the same frustrations and subterranean malice that fueled Christianity’s birth and spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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