Despite what anyone thinks about Christianity or religion in general, progressives everywhere can and should support the message of the growing "progressive evangelism" movement.
While I may not support their message of Jesus as my personal savior, I support what they are trying to do in relation to their genocidal counterparts, the conservative evangelicals who are deeply involved in the campaign to murder gays in Uganda and who who are the insidious force behind campaigns of genocide and forced conversion dating back 1685 years (since the Council of Nicea in 325AD).
The progressive evangelicals are correct that the hate-filled message of the conservative evangelicals, that their inciting of violence against gays and their hypocritical moralism in general, is blasphemous and utterly contradicts all the teachings of early Christianity. They support a version of Christianity that distances itself from politics and moralism.
Can I get an "Amen"?!
The progressive evangelicals aren't pulling their punches and in fact are rightly claiming conservative evangelicals face eternal damnation for their evil:
In the recent debate over American evangelicals' role in Uganda’s foundering bill to execute gay people, the bill’s most vocal opponents have proven to be fellow American evangelicals.
"As a career missionary to Africa, I fear what would happen to me on judgment day if I didn’t speak out against what is happening in Uganda right now in the name of Christ," Aaron D. Taylor, 31, an evangelical missionary from Farmington, New Mexico who has worked in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Nigeria, and Guinea Bissau, recently posted in his blog.
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He is part of a growing Christian movement called progressive evangelicalism, a group led by such figures as Jim Wallis, the activist and founder of Sojourners, a left-leaning evangelical publishing empire, and Richard Cizik, who resigned last year from his post at the National Association of Evangelicals following outcry when he told Terry Gross on National Public Radio that he no longer opposed civil unions between homosexuals.
These leaders and their left-leaning followers are in the midst of a schism, a fundamental splitting off from the former generation of more conservative evangelical Christians who saw it as their duty to promote their social values in the secular world.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
Many know there are conflicting accounts of early Christianity.
Historians are finally starting to admit that modern Christianity was founded on genocide. The Council of Nicea of 325AD is the historical marker for this genocide of the original Christians, the Gnostics, by their conservative counterparts, who are called the "Orthodox" by Elaine Pagels of Princeton University, author of "The Gnostic Gospels."
I mention that because this fight for the soul of Christianity dates back to the founding of modern Christianity.
The real story of the original Christianity reveals that they were fighting against tyranny. They were not tyrants themselves committing genocide against others. Certainly, Jesus never intended for missionaries to hand out smallpox-infected blankets to indigenous populations, to Crusade against other religions to force submission, and to terrorize, dehumanize, and murder their political opponents as they are trying to do in Uganda.
God damn the conservative Evangelicals.