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people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.
if your church isn’t telling you to love your enemies but keeps telling you who your enemies are, you’re not really in a church.
Christian nationalism is like marching the Bill of Rights and the New Testament out into the woods, at gunpoint, together, and digging two holes.
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If Jesus only spoke in parables, using story to tell a deeper truth, why is it so hard to imagine that parts of the Bible might be parable, metaphor, and poetry?
Of course, Pope Francis calling Donald Trump “not Christian” is like James Brown calling Trump “not Black.”
Guns don’t kill people, but NRA people who own congresspeople make it easier for deranged people to be heavily armed people who kill innocent people.
But an AR-15 for civilian use is not your “God-given right”; it’s your goddamn entertainment.
the only way you can cling equally to both a Bible and a gun is by skipping the Jesus parts.
Their Jesus is a Rebel without a Cross.
There’s one rule that consistently applies to both Christianity and comedy—don’t punch down.
No one can serve both Christ and white supremacy. It’s not merely un-Christian; it is anti-Christian.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin
One of my favorite quotes, ever.
The fundamentalists’ and nationalists’ Holy War has never been for Jesus, and it’s never been against Satan. It’s always just been a struggle for their own power.
