Today I'd like to discuss a topic that deeply affects the Christian Church in America. Thousands of churches will close this year because of it (far more than will open in fact) and it is currently the reigning factor in not only Christian clergy being fired from their congregations but also why many churches continue to dwindle in numbers. The horrific disease affecting our American churches is none other than American church-goers...they stink on ice.
I remember being shown in seminary a picture of Jesus holding a gun, wrapped in the American flag, and having an anti-gay triangle as his insignia. Sadly this is the Jesus for approximately 99% of Christians in America, because the NRA was popular in Jerusalem in AD 30, after all. This and other nonsense will cause half of seminary graduates to be run out of ministry entirely in five years, and only one in ten of us will actually get to retire as a pastor if the statistics are to be believed.
Indeed, I just had one of the worst Bible Studies I have ever had the displeasure of hosting, and all for trying to show that the Old Testament has real consistencies with the New and that the Canaanite invasion historically wasn't genocide. I guess people get really mad if you don't get to the part where God kills everybody, everybody but them of course.
So remember, even though only 20% of Americans or less actually show up to church on a given Sunday this is a Christian nation and any attempts to make God seem consistent, reasonable, and not a monster will be considered heresy.
The more you know...
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