It was never my intention to disparage anyone, evangelicals included. If you think that is what I have done that is your opinion. But it’s an incorrect opinion. But, fair enough. What follows is what I believe based on my own observations and experiences with evangelicals. These are my own opinions and observations. Whether anyone else thinks similarly or disagrees with my assessment doesn’t really matter to me. This is not an invitation. I am not going to engage in any argument or further discussion on this topic because I’m really just not interested.
You asked me to provide what I think the term evangelical means. So, even though I am certainly not obligated to do so, I’m obliging. I hope that you will appreciate that I did so because I didn’t have to do it.
Evangelicals identify themselves by their evangelism. They claim to accept Jesus Christ as their savior and invoke his name all the time. It is their mission to get as many people as they can to accept their beliefs and practices. I do not think of them as being honestly religious people because they don’t practice what they preach. They don’t follow the teachings of Christ even though they are always stating publicly that everything they do, they do for him. In fact, they often violate the four principles listed above: Love your neighbor. Feed the poor. Heal the sick. Welcome the stranger. That contradicts and goes against the teachings of Jesus and, in fact, is hypocrisy. Instead of doing what they claim to do and follow Jesus, they follow their church leaders and their evangelism is often commingled with politics. That’s not religion. It’s politics.
It seems to me that in christianity there are two kinds of worship. There is the worship of Jesus, his life, what he taught, and a commitment to living as Jesus attempted to teach people how to live and take care of each other. The other form of worship in christianity is a worship of the Bible as gospel and a reverence not for Jesus but for church leaders. This form of worship is distinct from the worship of Jesus and his teachings. In this form of worship, the emphasis is adherence to the Bible’s most vindictive, retributive, vengeful and apocalyptic passages, not on the teachings of Jesus. This is the form of worship that is embraced by evangelicals.
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