x-posted from /r/SelfAwarewolves by /u/YourDogIsMyFriend
If you believe the stories, Jesus was progressive and woke af. I’m honestly a bit surprised it took them this long to say this quiet part out loud.
I’d love to see a study where someone takes the teachings of Jesus, anonymizes and modernizes the stories and just presents them as hypotheticals with a “Strongly Disagree -> Strongly Agree” choiceset and see what most modern evangelicals actually think of Jesus when taken out of context.
I’ll bet that the majority would say they disagree with Jesus on most points
That actually doesn’t sound that unreasonable. Take all the hocus pocus out of it and yeah, Jesus was a good role model.
I always love how evangelicals try to push the idea that the founding fathers were bible thumpers like themselves. So many of them were deists which to a evangelical, is extremely heretical. Hell, Thomas Paine especially was not shy about expressing his pretty strong dislike for Christianity.
