Stupid things religious people say

[Ivan Denisovich]

SO confident in tolerating minority views....

Someone took Stalin (allegedly) words to heart: Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

[The Grand Nudger]

America requires Americans. No, we don’t all need to look and sound identical, but we do need to be specific about what makes an American an American. American culture, with its Christian civil religion, is required to maintain this union of states and their self-governing peoples. You cannot take people from any other civic, commercial, or cultural context, drop them within American borders, and expect that you will get the same results as those who are fully assimilated to our country’s historic way of life.

-another christian grifter trying to steal whatever bit of americana he can, all the while ignoring the defining characteristic of america, and especially in comparison to other national cultures and civic religions.  We're deeply assimilative.  You can, in fact, take people from anywhere and expect the same results as the fully assimilated - because they will shortly be the fully assimilated.  

This has long been a gripe of the christian reich.  That foreigners come here and achieve the american dream when they do not.

[Fake Messiah]

Oh no, Christian organizations that tolerate gay people are devil's traps to drag Christians into hell. Gay people are devil's minions, and I can say that because I have gay friends.

People are choosing sincerity instead of Jesus!

We must abandon the ethical progress of society and go back to the bronze age bigotry of the Bible that Jesus preached.

This is the real danger of Progressive Christianity

This movement isn’t just a theological shift. It’s a spiritual counterfeit — one that keeps the language of Christianity but trades the authority of Scripture for the approval of culture. Progressive Christianity deceives from the inside. It misleads under the banner of Jesus — offering a form of godliness but denying its power (2 Timothy 3:5). And it’s costing people their salvation.

At its core, progressive theology tends to reject the authority and inerrancy of the Bible, reinterpret sin through the lens of human experience, emphasize love and inclusion over holiness and repentance, and downplay the exclusivity of Christ for salvation.

In this view, truth is flexible. God’s commands are negotiable. And Jesus becomes more of a moral teacher than a Savior who calls us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). That’s not Christianity. That’s deception.

Atheists make no pretense about their disbelief. You know where they stand. But progressive Christians use Christian language, Scripture, and emotion to validate teachings that directly contradict the Bible. They redefine sin, affirm lifestyles that Scripture calls us to repent from, and reduce salvation to a vague message of self-love. In doing so, they lead others down a path that feels spiritual — but is ultimately separated from Christ. Jesus warned about this kind of deception: “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matthew 7:15). Progressive Christianity often wears that sheep’s clothing well. But it leaves people spiritually lost, thinking they’re saved while embracing a gospel that has no power to save.

Whether it’s sexuality, gender, marriage, abortion, or even the exclusivity of the Gospel, this movement molds faith to fit culture, rather than calling culture to repent and follow Christ.

I have many friends who consider themselves Christians and also identify as gay. Some are even politically conservative. They love Jesus — or at least they think they do. But they’ve been taught, as I once believed, that God affirms their same-sex relationships as long as they’re “loving” and “monogamous.” I understand the desire to reconcile faith and desire. I lived in that space for years — trying to convince myself that God was okay with what I wanted as long as I was sincere. But sincerity doesn’t save us. Jesus does.

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/thi...anity.html

[Angrboda]

The funny part is that the Christianity they prefer is every bit as much a product of culture as that which they reject. They just prefer their culture to that of progressive Christians.

Both are equally arbitrary and neither is founded upon any actual authority beyond culture.