A few thoughts:
- It’s all too convenient for Christians to look at this video & say “These are not real Christians!” And to move on without self-examination or acknowledgement of the church’s failures in the last 4 years (or 400 years for that matter)
- I don’t often see this same energy when it comes to antebellum slavers, I hear “They were men of their times!”🤷🏾♂️
- These people in the video may or may not be “real Christians.” The Lord allows the wheat to grow up with the tares, he will separate sheep and goats in the end.
- Regardless, All Christians must find their voice when self-identifying Christians misrepresent Christ and Kingdom.
- Dude’s prayer makes clear that he was either raised in Church or has been around church a long time. IOW he was not discipled away from his views. He was discipled either toward his views or he has apparently been in a church whose teachings are toothless re: this syncretism.
In the eyes of our neighbors, this brings shame on the whole church, not because the church has told inconvenient truths, but because these people have supported politically convenient lies.