Christian scholar urges evangelicals to abandon church as it's lost 'moral credibility'
Dr. David P. Gushee, a distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Georgia's Mercer University and chair of Christian social ethics at the Free University of Amsterdam, spoke with Salon's Chauncey Devega about what he says is a crisis in "White Christianity" as it slowly submits to Donald Trump.
Gushee began by saying that the political divisions in Christianity began in the 1960s with the culture wars, money in politics and the Christian right's slide into GOP devotion.
"I abandoned it in the 2015-2018 period. I write about that in my memoir Still Christian and my book After Evangelicalism. I fear that what 'evangelical' has come to mean is an authoritarian, reactionary white conservative population whose religion has become indistinguishable from radical right-wing politics."
https://www.rawstory.com/evangelicas-hav...edibility/
Dr. David P. Gushee, a distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Georgia's Mercer University and chair of Christian social ethics at the Free University of Amsterdam, spoke with Salon's Chauncey Devega about what he says is a crisis in "White Christianity" as it slowly submits to Donald Trump.
Gushee began by saying that the political divisions in Christianity began in the 1960s with the culture wars, money in politics and the Christian right's slide into GOP devotion.
"I abandoned it in the 2015-2018 period. I write about that in my memoir Still Christian and my book After Evangelicalism. I fear that what 'evangelical' has come to mean is an authoritarian, reactionary white conservative population whose religion has become indistinguishable from radical right-wing politics."
https://www.rawstory.com/evangelicas-hav...edibility/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"