5 Evangelical Truisms that Aren’t True
5 Evangelical Truisms that Aren’t True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-fgjgKfRY
Tag: christianity
You can’t be liberal & claim to be Christian
The Bible doesn’t clearly support liberal or conservative ideology. It is written in different times by different authors, it contradicts itself, it doesn’t line up with any modern ideology, and doesn’t clearly give direction on most, if any, modern political issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUi1906TiAU
The U.S. was NEVER a Christian Nation
At the nation’s founding, the Bible was not the most quoted text. This claim comes from a study that includes a lot of sermons reprinted on pamphlets, so, every time a religious sermon was printed on a pamphlet, which happened a lot back then, that counted as quoting the Bible. Additionally, these weren’t founding fathers quoting the Bible, but preachers preaching.
The most cited authors at the time of the founding were: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke.
The period when the US Constitution was drafted has the lowest church attendance in US history.
The Federalists did not cite the Bible at all around the founding. The Anti-Federalists cited the Bible as nine percent of their citations. The Federalists, those who wrote the Constitution, did not cite the Bible when arguing for the Constitution. They believed in separation of church and state.
Christianity is a deep part of American culture and history, but people falsely exaggerate its direct role in the founding of the country.
Many state governments violated the principles of separation of state and church, but when the founders, who were sent by the states, came together to make a Constitution, they left such violations out of the new federal government and forbade acts that would create an established religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHGXNX6pGQ
Texas can require Ten Commandments in classrooms, US appeals court rules
Utter nonsense. Requiring public schools to post the ten commandments in their classrooms is forcing a particular religion down the throat of every child, using taxpayer funds. It is advocating the value of the Bible over other religions or non-religion. If a Muslim majority school district required every classroom to post lines from the Quran, people would be outraged. Unless the class is literally studying religion or that area of history, posting religious texts is advocating that or those religions and is an act of establishing an official religion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-can-require-ten-commandments-in-classrooms-us-appeals-court-rules-231531502.html
Christians have deemphasized Jesus’s focus on forgiveness. Instead, Christians emphasize atonement. Jesus’s immediate followers made this shift.
Christians have deemphasized Jesus’s focus on forgiveness. Instead, Christians emphasize atonement. Jesus’s immediate followers made this shift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqpVUmJpEf0
Mormons Meet Bible Scholar – Bart Ehrman
The Bible isn’t one book. It is a bunch of books put together. If we really want to understand it, we should try to understand what each author was saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ojTGrL_94
Did Christians Invent Jesus’ Teachings?
Jesus was not mentioned by Greek or Roman sources in the first 100 years. And, his first Greco-Roman reference was a passing reference. Paul also tells us very little about what Jesus specifically said. Our earliest sources are the four gospels. They are not particularly reliable, but that doesn’t mean they are useless. The Gospels are not first-hand testimony, but people reporting hearsay. They couldn’t know Jesus’s exact words.
We can look at which testimony is earlier, whether one seems to be emphasizing a bias or a message rather than just telling us what happened, to what extent different sources agree with each other, and the extent that Jesus is saying something that seems like his followers would not want him to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDtefHPTEk
At least for the Western world, Jesus inspired hospitals, charity for the sake of helping the downtrodden, and love for all mankind.
At least for the Western world, Jesus inspired hospitals, charity for the sake of helping the downtrodden, and love for all mankind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeyHtCBcY8k
US military leaders are encouraging Christianity among their troops and justifying the war using Christian rhetoric and ideology.
US military leaders are encouraging Christianity among their troops and justifying the war using Christian rhetoric and ideology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbhdEcOxfkw
While defending the current war on Iran, a US senator said we have a Biblical responsibility to Israel.
While defending the current war on Iran, a US senator said we have a Biblical responsibility to Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpWi10Yp_8