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[Eftsoon]

The statistics are brutal. Many police officers are good people, but a significant number among them are drunk with power. It's so very sad that this isn't raised in the church. When will the church come to its senses. Mention BLM in church and you may be censured. The secular world is slowly but surely becoming more moral than us! I see secular movements leading the way on basic moral issues.

Somehow we've decided that we only need to love God and love the neighbours whom we approve of. Everyone else can, literally, go to hell.It's as if the bible were handed to us with the sermon on the mount redacted. When did a sense of responsibility become a divine mystery??

1) Don't shoot, I'm disabled
2)Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex

 

[iluvatar5150]

The secular world is slowly but surely becoming more moral than us! I see secular movements leading the way on basic moral issues.

That's one of the sadder aspects of this. It's clear that much of the pursuit of "morality" from the evangelical church is really just an effort to control others. A lot of "woke" millennial culture hews pretty closely to a repackaging of Christian virtues but instead of embracing this shift and promoting the virtues they claim to believe, the church is objecting to it, seeking to preserve existing power structures (including their Republican-affiliated political power).

 

[Eftsoon]

Wow, yes absolutely. Much of the objection comes from the fact that it's emerging from the left side of the political spectrum. This is what comes of the fusion of church and state.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

The church should put it's own house in order and keep it's distance from these secular problems, unless of course these problems are also affecting the church.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

The statistics are brutal. Many police officers are good people, but a significant number among them are drunk with power. It's so very sad that this isn't raised in the church. When will the church come to its senses. Mention BLM in church and you may be censured. The secular world is slowly but surely becoming more moral than us! I see secular movements leading the way on basic moral issues.

Somehow we've decided that we only need to love God and love the neighbours whom we approve of. Everyone else can, literally, go to hell.It's as if the bible were handed to us with the sermon on the mount redacted. When did a sense of responsibility become a divine mystery??

1) Don't shoot, I'm disabled
2)Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex

The church is charged with the agency of calling sinners out of the world, and the 'edification of the saints', not saving the secular world that is bent on it's own destruction. We can make suggestions but should keep our distance.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

That's one of the sadder aspects of this. It's clear that much of the pursuit of "morality" from the evangelical church is really just an effort to control others. A lot of "woke" millennial culture hews pretty closely to a repackaging of Christian virtues but instead of embracing this shift and promoting the virtues they claim to believe, the church is objecting to it, seeking to preserve existing power structures (including their Republican-affiliated political power).

It's becoming harder to distinguish between the visible church and the world. Curious.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

The statistics are brutal. Many police officers are good people, but a significant number among them are drunk with power. It's so very sad that this isn't raised in the church. When will the church come to its senses. Mention BLM in church and you may be censured. The secular world is slowly but surely becoming more moral than us! I see secular movements leading the way on basic moral issues.

Somehow we've decided that we only need to love God and love the neighbours whom we approve of. Everyone else can, literally, go to hell.It's as if the bible were handed to us with the sermon on the mount redacted. When did a sense of responsibility become a divine mystery??

1) Don't shoot, I'm disabled
2)Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex

Criminal behavior and non-compliance to police authority increases the risk of harm or death at the hands of the police for all groups.