1. Behind both the Walker flap & the Obama-comments-on-ISIS flap is the idea that liberal believers are by definition inauthentic.
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11. To say Obama doesn't love America and that it's uncertain he's a Christian is to say the same thing: in tribal terms he's not one of us
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12. Leaving politics aside, the willingness to dismiss liberal Christianity as simply fake is an intellectual & spiritual catastrophe.
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@HeerJeet 1) There's an underlying belief in evangelical Christianity that faith flows through the individual's exp w/ Christ and yet...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet 2) That was subsumed by the cultural shock experienced in the 60s-70s by those who left other denominations in droves for otherThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet 3) forms of faith which gave them cultural / tribal identities against the other - threatening - beliefs which had sprung up.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet 4) This also gave us numerous cults in the US! All of which was a reaction against previous spiritual orders which offered 0 answrThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet 5) The religious right came as a movement coopting legitimate searching for answers against changing times -
@HORSEYMEN@HeerJeet it is a cover for oppression period.
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@HeerJeet 6) And of course, the natural hucksterism which fed on both social and spiritual conservative impulses was helpful to neitherThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet 7) Political or spiritual conservatives. (this has nothing to do with your comments about Islam; know little of Isl faith trad) -
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