I’d love to see a study where someone takes the teachings of Jesus, anonymizes and modernizes the stories and just presents them as hypotheticals with a “Strongly Disagree -> Strongly Agree” choiceset and see what most modern evangelicals actually think of Jesus when taken out of context.
I’ll bet that the majority would say they disagree with Jesus on most points
Actually had a priest suggest that the miracle of the loaves and fishes was that as the baker went around, those who brought their own put extra in the basket.
I always love how evangelicals try to push the idea that the founding fathers were bible thumpers like themselves. So many of them were deists which to a evangelical, is extremely heretical. Hell, Thomas Paine especially was not shy about expressing his pretty strong dislike for Christianity.
I’d love to see a study where someone takes the teachings of Jesus, anonymizes and modernizes the stories and just presents them as hypotheticals with a “Strongly Disagree -> Strongly Agree” choiceset and see what most modern evangelicals actually think of Jesus when taken out of context.
I’ll bet that the majority would say they disagree with Jesus on most points
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That actually doesn’t sound that unreasonable. Take all the hocus pocus out of it and yeah, Jesus was a good role model.
I particularly enjoy the whipping of the lenders
“WWJD?” might be the most potent possible distillation
Who knows. Maybe what Jesus actually did was set up a food distribution network to feed those 4000 people for free.
This is now my bible head canon. They can make stuff up, why can’t I?
Actually had a priest suggest that the miracle of the loaves and fishes was that as the baker went around, those who brought their own put extra in the basket.
I always love how evangelicals try to push the idea that the founding fathers were bible thumpers like themselves. So many of them were deists which to a evangelical, is extremely heretical. Hell, Thomas Paine especially was not shy about expressing his pretty strong dislike for Christianity.