[Taken from an email from Eva.]<\/p>\n
An open letter to white evangelicals: We\u2019re done with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n By North Carolina Pastor John Pavlovitz <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Dear White Evangelicals,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They\u2019re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here\u2019s why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a Black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character\u2014all without cause or evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him. And through it all, White Evangelicals\u2014you never once suggested that God placed him where he was, you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities, you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance, you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy, your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership, your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him, you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You violently opposed him at every single turn\u2014without offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. You jettisoned Jesus as you dispensed damnation on him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And yet you give carte blanche to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filth\u2014that the mind boggles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And the change in you is unmistakable. It has been an astonishing conversion to behold: a being born again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n With him, you suddenly find religion. With him, you\u2019re now willing to offer full absolution. With him, all is forgiven without repentance or admission. With him, you\u2019re suddenly able to see some invisible, deeply buried heart. With him, sin has become unimportant, and compassion no longer a requirement. With him, you see only Providence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And White Evangelicals, all those people who have had it with you\u2014they see it all clearly. They recognize the toxic source of your inconsistency.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities. They see that you aren\u2019t interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus. They see that you aren\u2019t burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n They see that all you\u2019re really interested in doing is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it. They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesus\u2014not dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n And I know you don\u2019t realize it, but you\u2019re digging your own grave these days; the grave of your very faith tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage. Yes, you\u2019ve gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary power\u2014but you\u2019ve lost a whole lot more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You\u2019ve lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness. You\u2019ve lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation. You\u2019ve lost any semblance of Christlikeness. You\u2019ve lost the plot. And most of all you\u2019ve lost your soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I know it\u2019s likely you\u2019ll dismiss these words. The fact that you\u2019ve even made your bed with such malevolence, shows how far gone you are and how insulated you are from the reality in front of you. But I had to at least try to reach you. It\u2019s what Jesus would do.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Taken from an email from Eva.] An open letter to white evangelicals: We\u2019re done with you. By North Carolina Pastor John Pavlovitz Dear White Evangelicals, I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They\u2019re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here\u2019s why: They see your hypocrisy, <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[894,163,916],"tags":[2263,439,2264,2262],"class_list":["post-18467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-hypocrisy","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-white-evangelical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18468,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}