Atheism

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca ~2,000 years ago.

To quote a modern philosopher: Same as it ever was.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

He criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis.

Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention.

According to Moore, Christianity is in crisis in the United States today.

Listen to the full All Things Considered conversation with Russell Moore by tapping the play button at the top.

Moore spoke to All Things Considered's Scott Detrow about what he thinks the path forward is for evangelicalism in America.

On how he begins to address the issues he sees:

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That's cause Jesus, for all intents and purposes, was a damn lefty anarchist type with lots of empathy and strong principles. Jesus was cool af. Paul and the rest of them ran with it and churned out the modern day church as a power piece. Been like this since day one.

It's crazy it has come to this amount of transparency as far as motives. I grew up in a catholic church. I'm down w Jesus the man and philosophy. Not so much the rest of it at all.

I always find it hilarious that people cherry-pick the nice things to believe about Jesus. When you read the Gospels critically, he was absolutely a dick. Yes, in the stories he advocated for leftist values, but only for his fellow Jews.

Here are some examples of his other teachings that conservative Christians prefer:

• Jesus fails to "turn the other cheek" and instead gets violent: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+21:12-13

• He threatens eternal torture in fire to anyone who doesn't accept his teaching:
  https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-28.htm
  https://biblehub.com/matthew/7-19.htm
  https://biblehub.com/matthew/13-41.htm and https://biblehub.com/matthew/13-42.htm
  https://biblehub.com/matthew/13-49.htm and https://biblehub.com/matthew/13-50.htm
  https://biblehub.com/matthew/25-46.htm
  https://biblehub.com/mark/16-16.htm
  https://biblehub.com/luke/12-5.htm
  https://biblehub.com/john/3-18.htm, etc.

• He kills a fig tree for not bearing fruit that he knew was out of season: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+11%3A12-25

• He endorses racism: https://biblehub.com/matthew/15-24.htm

• When a gentile woman begs for his help he calls her a dog: https://biblehub.com/matthew/15-25.htm and https://biblehub.com/matthew/15-26.htm

• He plays favorites: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+4%3A10-12

• He destroys a village's livelihood: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+8

• He teaches Christians to have a persecution complex: https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-11.htm

• He teaches thought crime: https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-28.htm

• He disputes the concept of personal responsibility: https://biblehub.com/matthew/6-25.htm

• He condemns skepticism: https://biblehub.com/matthew/14-31.htm and https://biblehub.com/john/20-27.htm

• He teaches self-harm in the cause of religious purity: https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-8.htm

• He sends his disciples to steal a man’s donkey: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+19%3A29-34

• He was not a peacemaker: https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm

• He was divisive: https://biblehub.com/luke/14-26.htm and https://biblehub.com/luke/14-33.htm

• He was a liar: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+7%3A8-10

The teachings were quite subversive back in their day. We are in crisis.

This is not really new.

that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak

The book "Jesus and John Wayne" addresses that mindshift in Evangelical thinking.