I’m learning a-lot about the importance of social media in pushing conversations that are often ignored. But it also can push cynicism & lack of charity. We can be bold and passionate w/o being unkind. I have needed to repent & most likely will again. We can be better! 1/2
It’s one thing to be gay and be conservative! By all means, you do you…doesn’t bother me! But that’s not the problem. It’s the platforming of your sexuality in order to become a rage peddling novelty on behalf of people and an ideology that will never accept you! Why? For what?
@toughtalkty And you do this because you pedal in shock and rage but you don’t actually try to work through ideas and get to solutions. One can respect you being gay and conservative it’s the platforming and the desired shock effect off it all that makes it more of a joke.
@toughtalkty See that’s what you do, you run to the extremes and you play to your base which would be horrified by his tweets but you don’t actually deal in honesty with people who are calling you on ideas not just calling you names. Yet you lump it all in with being a conservative 1/2
@peterben_mn@_nomadic_soul@ZachWLambert@kevinmyoung Sorry bro, you’re not really making the point you think you are. In fact, it’s Evangelicalism whose ears itch to believe the things they must believe in order to maintain the system. There is internal dissonance everywhere and y’all know it but you cannot admit it and remain!
@toughtalkty Gay men who do not share your ideology are not doing less simply because they have a different ideology!? That’s all smoke and no substance. Further, maybe those spaces are too painful for them for any number of reasons! Why judge them for that. This is all just platforming
This is the president of a Southeastern Baptist Seminary and the president of the Council for Biblical Manhood/Womanhood defending a white coach telling a black player that “slaves should obey their masters.”
I’m increasingly convinced that white evangelicalism is unredeemable.
The church (I know broad brush…) has largely denied #LGBTQ individuals the grace of entrance into its communities, yet offers to be a part of our healing and finally shames us when anger, frustration and disillusionment spill out!
@JasonLingel@thomaslhorrocks But we are at liberty to accept as fact the translation theory and interpretation of men, who at varying points in church history have done just that? And to further be at liberty to accept that you say “it’s the only biblical option?” And evangelicals functioning response?
@M_Y_Emerson Where is it getting cheaper? Don’t you think we should worry about the cost as lower income individuals (disproportionately black and Hispanic) are being left out of the equation more and more because they cannot compete financially and often attend schools that are struggling