LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

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Wow, maybe there is hope. Of course, he's probably just preaching to the choir, don't see any red hats around. Still may reach a few people.

This evangelical is over Trump. 👇

Calls his Bible disgusting.

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— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) April 23, 2024

And then there was this;

At Yale, Christian Pastors Sign A Declaration Opposing Religious Nationalism
By Yonat Shimron
https://julieroys.com/yale-christian-pastors-sign-declaration-opposing-religious-nationalism/

A group of Christian pastors, theologians and scholars has signed a declaration committing the signers to preaching on “moral issues “ ahead of the 2024 election and opposing what the group calls “religious nationalism.”

The document defines religious nationalism as a political movement that it says is exploiting “traditional values” to undermine democracy. “This distorted religious nationalism has persuaded many well-meaning Christians to focus on a narrow set of divisive cultural wedge issues while ignoring the real moral issues that are at the heart of our Scriptures and tradition,” the declaration reads.

The New Haven Declaration of Moral & Spiritual Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election is one of the outcomes of Yale Divinity School’s first Public Theology and Public Policy Conference, which concluded Tuesday.

The declaration states “we love this nation,” before taking on what it describes as a “political movement (that) has co-opted our faith tradition.”

“We repent of not doing more to preach and teach against this misuse of our faith, and we pledge to proclaim in word and deed a public theology that is good news for all people,” it reads..................

..................................“I think as Christians we have to really understand what the roots of our tradition are and not allow those things to be distorted or misused for purposes that really fly in the face of what we believe,” Owens said.............................

....................But the bulk of the conference was devoted to helping pastors and other Christian leaders better understand the issues that Barber cares about most: poverty, racism, voting rights, criminal justice, health care.

“Christian nationalism glorifies hating, almost disdaining, others when our Christian teaching from Scripture calls us to embrace our neighbor and it doesn’t decide who our neighbor is,” Barber said. “It calls us to love everyone with the love of God.”


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