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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      4. One simple common sense objection is that Jesus couldn't have meant just Christians because Christians as such didn't exist when he spoke

      18 replies 92 retweets 678 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      5. Jesus only ever addressed Jews (mostly) and pagans. The Jesus movement didn't become a separate religion until long after his death.

      11 replies 55 retweets 415 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      6. But let's say we accept Erickson's premise Jesus meant his words for Christians after his death. Does it then mean what Erickson thinks?

      7 replies 29 retweets 154 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      7. Erickson's reading: Jesus believed that people will be judged by God on how they treat the Christian poor & not poor in general.

      11 replies 45 retweets 180 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      8. Erickson's Jesus (Erick-sus) is preaching a tribalist religion. God loves my tribe well & God will be nice.

      14 replies 47 retweets 265 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      9. Did Jesus preach a tribalist religion (treat Christians well) or universalist one (treat all well)? See the parable of the Good Samaritan

      14 replies 72 retweets 396 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      10. Stepping outside of theology into ethics: if Christianity is only about helping other Christians, it's a piss poor excuse for a religion

      22 replies 194 retweets 766 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      11. I was raised a Sikh & our temples have a duty to provide food to all who enter, not just other Sikhs. Erickson's Jesus inferior to that

      15 replies 77 retweets 559 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      Jeet Heer Retweeted Diana Butler Bass

      12. For an excellent, informed discussion of how Christians have debated these issues, see here:https://twitter.com/dianabutlerbass/status/842913944893382657 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Diana Butler BassVerified account @dianabutlerbass
      In church history, early western theology tended to read Matt 25:40 exclusively -- referring to Xians. 1/
      3 replies 65 retweets 263 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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      13. There's a political angle to this as well. Erickson was Never Trump rightist but now closer to anti-anti-Trump.

      8 replies 28 retweets 182 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017

      14. One of the things Trump has done is gotten Christians to think of themselves in tribal terms: a group that he is the champion of.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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          15. Trump is the most profane American president ever but religious right love him as their champion in battle against Islam & liberalism.

          8 replies 141 retweets 407 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2017
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          16. Erickson shows how powerful the tribalist urge in American Christianity is, even for someone slightly outside Trump's orbit.

          7 replies 52 retweets 265 likes
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        1. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM 17 Mar 2017
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          Or, perhaps, that he successfully positioned himself as the champion of an already existing white Christian tribalism?

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        1. Michele  🌮 🍷 🎸 😷 🧂‏ @UnimpressedTX 17 Mar 2017
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          No. Trump represents those who like to be "seen as" Christians, not those who try to live as Christians.

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