He was a top church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis, NPR.org, By Scott Detrow, Gabriel J. Sánchez, and Sarah Handel, August 8, 2023,

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity


Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting 'Liberal' Teachings of Jesus, Newsweek, By Aila Slisco, August 9, 2023
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

The Non-Prophets, Episode 22.34.2 featuring Cynthia McDonald , Phil the Skeptic Atheist, Jonathan Roudabush and Infidel64

Russell Moore stood out in evangelical circles for criticizing Trump. He also was critical of the Southern Baptist Convention's handling of sexual abuse and white nationalism. And this resulted in his departure.

The Non-Prophets covered Russell Moore and Beth Moore in April of 2021 when they both left the SBC over some of the same reasons the articles mention.
Moore recently addressed what he called a crisis in American Christianity. He believes that society's divisions have infiltrated the church. In reality, it is the other way around. This has been a problem from Christianity’s origin.

The Southern Baptist Convention only exists because so they wanted to defend slavery in the Civil War era. Moore glosses over the role Evangelical leaders, they have fanned the flames in the name of their own self-interest for decades, if not centuries.
Moore isn’t preaching turn the other cheek with his anti-LGBT rhetoric, or promoting misogyny. He still marginalizes groups all in the name of religion. Religion is just a useful tool for them.

Military and Holy War rhetoric has long been normal. God’s army, spiritual warfare, or battling the devil all come to mind. Why is Moore surprised when people expect holy war?
Qanon has co-opted Christianity, it borrows, and shares recurring themes. There is obviously a proclivity among the MAGA Christian Nationalist to overreact. If this was not the case, we would not have had January 6th. Even inciting violence against others for simply existing, what did Moore expect?

Don't blame society for the ills of the church. We know how they got there, They drove the bus to this point. Moore just didn't realize that the other people were going to get in the driver's seat and be more unhinged than he is.

He is angry we're getting away from Christian values, We can hope they are getting away from some of those values. One recurring theme was “turn the other cheek”, but this often produce passiveness and indifference which hurt marginalized groups. They feel they have lost grip because many people stopped going to church after covid. Churchgoing is not what it was a generation ago, we just covered on this show a several times how church attendance is dwindling exponentially.

A famous civil rights leader’s comments after the assassination of JFK, he said this was “Chickens coming home to roost.” They are getting what they paid for. The bible says as one sows, so also shall they reap. Another lie. We are all paying the price for their hate. Again.

#misogynist #whitenationalists #bigot #politics #racism

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