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B402, "...and good intentions it started with..." Briboy - Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
This month, Chis Hodges, senior pastor of Church of the Highlands, an evangelical congregation with 60,000 members spread across 24 locations, came under fire after screenshots were shared online showing the pastor liking several posts by Charlie Kirk, a controversial pro-Trump activist.
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The posts in question were considered racially insensitive and, among other things, questioned whether white privilege actually exists.
These actions sparked outcry from Birmingham residents, including the pastor of at least one black church who was already displeased .. https://www.christianpost.com/news/birmingham-pastor-slams-local-megachurch-as-racist-tells-blacks-to-get-out-of-white-churches.html .. that Hodges’ church has been planting white congregations in black neighborhoods to which they had no connection.
Hodges attempted to quell the furor by deleting his social media accounts and tearfully apologizing to his congregation, but Birmingham’s Board of Education, which leased two public high schools to the church, was unconvinced.
The board abruptly canceled .. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/10/us/ap-us-pastor-social-media-backlash.html .. Church of the Highlands’ six-year lease, prohibiting the church from continuing to meet in the schools. The city’s housing authority also terminated a partnership under which the church provided various social services to residents.
Hodges had been “canceled” ...
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[B402 --"Never mind the way it got started, and good intentions it started with..."]
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, church youth groups coordinated book burnings and music bonfires to purge their world of evil art. On any given night of the week, televangelists and Christian activists could be found on cable news attacking their enemies by name and blaming them for the “moral decay” of America.
Evangelicals tried their level best to smear and shame any person or organization who didn’t behave or believe appropriately in order to forcibly craft a society according to their Christian values.
[B402 -- "Never mind the way it got started, and good intentions it started with..."]
When the target of their wrath wasn’t vulnerable to their smears, they used the foremost tool of cancel culture: the boycott. In 1997, the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention boycotted .. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/19/us/southern-baptist-convention-calls-for-boycott-of-disney.html .. the Walt Disney company, which they perceived to be too gay-friendly.
Two years later, Jerry Falwell Sr., founder of the Moral Majority, famously led an effort to boycott .. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/276677.stm .. “The Teletubbies,” a children’s television program, because he got an inkling that its Tinky-Winky character was covertly gay.
In 2012, the evangelical group “One Million Moms,” part of the American Family Association, led a boycott .. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244174/Christian-mothers-boycott-JCPenneys-Ellen-DeGeneres-Christmas-ad.html .. of JCPenney after comedian Ellen DeGeneres, an out lesbian, was named the department store chain’s spokesperson.
White evangelicals’ “cancel culture” did not just target those outside the camp. If a member of the community dared to deviate from what the majority called “orthodoxy,” that person too risked being run out of town.
Beginning in the 1970s, a group of Southern Baptists, led by now disgraced preacher and seminary president Paige Patterson and other conservative leaders, sought to purge their denomination of any hint of “liberal theology.” Seminary professors, church employees and pastors lost their jobs or were shamed out of the convention during this denominational civil war.
Known as the “Conservative Resurgence” or “the fundamentalist takeover,” depending on your point of view, the coup Patterson led was a massive exercise of cancel culture. Only true believers allowed. Anyone who crossed the masses was expelled quickly and forcefully.
Rob Bell. Photo courtesy of Rob Bell
Beyond the SBC, one of the best-known examples of evangelical cancel culture involved the public shaming of author Rob Bell, a former megachurch pastor who dared to question whether non-Christians went to hell after they died.
[Seriously? These jerks sup on superstition as a newborn sups on a woman's teat. The latter is good for us.]
Strictly, Bell was not “canceled,” but “farewelled ..
Since then, other Christian writers, including Jen Hatmaker and Rachel Held Evans, found their books no longer welcome in Christian bookstores due to their support for same-sex marriage.
"Never mind the way it got started, and good intentions it started with..."
Good intentions. You are fucking kidding. You didn't know how it started did you. you just said it. That's how you operate.
Subterfuge. You say the Dems are engaged in it more than the Republicans are. That's part of your lie now. Suck on this:
conix, conix, Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
"You support the suppression of Free Speech on college campuses and then you defend the Constitution? Can you spell --irony?"
Nowhere in his did zab say anything about his support for suppression of free
speech on college campuses. Yet again, an unwarranted sledge from you.
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The American right has lost the plot on free speech.
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No wasting time with you today.
This month, Chis Hodges, senior pastor of Church of the Highlands, an evangelical congregation with 60,000 members spread across 24 locations, came under fire after screenshots were shared online showing the pastor liking several posts by Charlie Kirk, a controversial pro-Trump activist.
[...]
The posts in question were considered racially insensitive and, among other things, questioned whether white privilege actually exists.
These actions sparked outcry from Birmingham residents, including the pastor of at least one black church who was already displeased .. https://www.christianpost.com/news/birmingham-pastor-slams-local-megachurch-as-racist-tells-blacks-to-get-out-of-white-churches.html .. that Hodges’ church has been planting white congregations in black neighborhoods to which they had no connection.
Hodges attempted to quell the furor by deleting his social media accounts and tearfully apologizing to his congregation, but Birmingham’s Board of Education, which leased two public high schools to the church, was unconvinced.
The board abruptly canceled .. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/10/us/ap-us-pastor-social-media-backlash.html .. Church of the Highlands’ six-year lease, prohibiting the church from continuing to meet in the schools. The city’s housing authority also terminated a partnership under which the church provided various social services to residents.
Hodges had been “canceled” ...
[...]
[B402 --"Never mind the way it got started, and good intentions it started with..."]
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, church youth groups coordinated book burnings and music bonfires to purge their world of evil art. On any given night of the week, televangelists and Christian activists could be found on cable news attacking their enemies by name and blaming them for the “moral decay” of America.
Evangelicals tried their level best to smear and shame any person or organization who didn’t behave or believe appropriately in order to forcibly craft a society according to their Christian values.
[B402 -- "Never mind the way it got started, and good intentions it started with..."]
When the target of their wrath wasn’t vulnerable to their smears, they used the foremost tool of cancel culture: the boycott. In 1997, the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention boycotted .. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/19/us/southern-baptist-convention-calls-for-boycott-of-disney.html .. the Walt Disney company, which they perceived to be too gay-friendly.
Two years later, Jerry Falwell Sr., founder of the Moral Majority, famously led an effort to boycott .. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/276677.stm .. “The Teletubbies,” a children’s television program, because he got an inkling that its Tinky-Winky character was covertly gay.
In 2012, the evangelical group “One Million Moms,” part of the American Family Association, led a boycott .. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244174/Christian-mothers-boycott-JCPenneys-Ellen-DeGeneres-Christmas-ad.html .. of JCPenney after comedian Ellen DeGeneres, an out lesbian, was named the department store chain’s spokesperson.
White evangelicals’ “cancel culture” did not just target those outside the camp. If a member of the community dared to deviate from what the majority called “orthodoxy,” that person too risked being run out of town.
Beginning in the 1970s, a group of Southern Baptists, led by now disgraced preacher and seminary president Paige Patterson and other conservative leaders, sought to purge their denomination of any hint of “liberal theology.” Seminary professors, church employees and pastors lost their jobs or were shamed out of the convention during this denominational civil war.
Known as the “Conservative Resurgence” or “the fundamentalist takeover,” depending on your point of view, the coup Patterson led was a massive exercise of cancel culture. Only true believers allowed. Anyone who crossed the masses was expelled quickly and forcefully.
Rob Bell. Photo courtesy of Rob Bell
Beyond the SBC, one of the best-known examples of evangelical cancel culture involved the public shaming of author Rob Bell, a former megachurch pastor who dared to question whether non-Christians went to hell after they died.
[Seriously? These jerks sup on superstition as a newborn sups on a woman's teat. The latter is good for us.]
Strictly, Bell was not “canceled,” but “farewelled ..
” — the patent online move was simply to bid “Farewell, Rob Bell,” next to a link to his apostasy. Suddenly, anyone who was friends with Bell, owned books by Bell or even dared to quote Bell’s earlier work was at risk of being canceled as well.Farewell Rob Bell. http://dsr.gd/fZqmd8
— John Piper (@JohnPiper) February 26, 2011
Since then, other Christian writers, including Jen Hatmaker and Rachel Held Evans, found their books no longer welcome in Christian bookstores due to their support for same-sex marriage.
"Never mind the way it got started, and good intentions it started with..."
Good intentions. You are fucking kidding. You didn't know how it started did you. you just said it. That's how you operate.
Subterfuge. You say the Dems are engaged in it more than the Republicans are. That's part of your lie now. Suck on this:
conix, conix, Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
"You support the suppression of Free Speech on college campuses and then you defend the Constitution? Can you spell --irony?"
Nowhere in his did zab say anything about his support for suppression of free
speech on college campuses. Yet again, an unwarranted sledge from you.
Related: Why alt-right trolls shouted down Donald Trump Jr.
"Trump’s Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist"
The “Groyper Army” and the war over college campus conservatism, explained.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170543296
[...]
The American right has lost the plot on free speech.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170838925
No wasting time with you today.
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