Are right-wing evangelicals causing the rise in religious 'nones'?

[kudzu]

A good read which confirms the fact that Christian Zionists are the dumbest, most hateful people in America.

No question about that..

[PostmodernProphet]

recently reviewed a poll taken in Michigan regarding religion.......67% stated they believed in God.....there was roughly an equal three way split......one third believed in God and attended church on a weekly basis.......one third believed in God and did NOT attend church......one third was divided between other religions, apathetics, agnostics and atheists.......atheists were under 5%......

[Zarathustra]

If the Right wants to be taken seriously, they really do need to distance themselves from the Evangelical dumbfucks. Although they do seem to be getting the memo nowadays.

[kudzu]

recently reviewed a poll taken in Michigan regarding religion.......67% stated they believed in God.....there was roughly an equal three way split......one third believed in God and attended church on a weekly basis.......one third believed in God and did NOT attend church......one third was divided between other religions, apathetics, agnostics and atheists.......atheists were under 5%......

If there had been no Scofield Bible

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...Scofield-Bible

[PostmodernProphet]

If there had been no Scofield Bible

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...Scofield-Bible

why do waste so much time bringing up irrelevant things....who gives a fuck about scolfield's bible?.....

[kudzu]

why do waste so much time bringing up irrelevant things....who gives a fuck about scolfield's bible?.....

The Scofield Bible is a con job that has fooled a lot of people and done a lot of damage. If you aren't interested, get off the thread.

[PostmodernProphet]

The Scofield Bible is a con job that has fooled a lot of people and done a lot of damage. If you aren't interested, get off the thread.

you fucking idiot, this isn't the thread......

[kudzu]

you fucking idiot, this isn't the thread......

Scofield teachings have taken over the Evangelicals.

[PostmodernProphet]

Scofield teachings have taken over the Evangelicals.

does anyone even remember Scofield......that's so mid-century modern.....

[kudzu]

does anyone even remember Scofield......that's so mid-century modern.....

Evangelicals have NO clue where their beliefs came from.

[PostmodernProphet]

Evangelicals have NO clue where their beliefs came from.

obviously, neither do you.....

[kudzu]

obviously, neither do you.....

For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.”

—The New Scofield Study Bible

Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans. When John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), said that “50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel,” it was the Scofield Bible that he was talking about.

Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is not the traditional Protestant bible but Cyrus I. Scofield’s annotated commentary that is problematic. More than any other factor, it is Scofield’s notes that have induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.

Blessing Israel, Cursing Its Critics

Central to Christian Zionist belief is Scofield’s commentary (italicized below) on Genesis 12:3: “‘I will bless them that bless thee.’ In fulfillment closely related to the next clause, ‘And curse him that curseth thee.’ Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew—well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle.”

Drawing on Scofield’s rather tendentious interpretation, Hagee claims, “The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”

But as Stephen Sizer points out in his definitive critique, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (available from AET’s Middle East Books and More): “The promise, when referring to Abraham’s descendants, speaks of God blessing them, not of entire nations ‘blessing’ the Hebrew nation, still less the contemporary and secular State of Israel.”

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http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/...al-christians/

[RB 60]

For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.”

—The New Scofield Study Bible

Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans. When John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), said that “50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel,” it was the Scofield Bible that he was talking about.

Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is not the traditional Protestant bible but Cyrus I. Scofield’s annotated commentary that is problematic. More than any other factor, it is Scofield’s notes that have induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.

Blessing Israel, Cursing Its Critics

Central to Christian Zionist belief is Scofield’s commentary (italicized below) on Genesis 12:3: “‘I will bless them that bless thee.’ In fulfillment closely related to the next clause, ‘And curse him that curseth thee.’ Wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew—well with those who have protected him. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle.”

Drawing on Scofield’s rather tendentious interpretation, Hagee claims, “The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”

But as Stephen Sizer points out in his definitive critique, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (available from AET’s Middle East Books and More): “The promise, when referring to Abraham’s descendants, speaks of God blessing them, not of entire nations ‘blessing’ the Hebrew nation, still less the contemporary and secular State of Israel.”

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http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/...al-christians/

Why this obsession with these lies?

[kudzu]

Why this obsession with these lies?

We have a good many Evangelical Christians backing Trump.

[Leonthecat]

Are right-wing evangelicals causing the rise in religious 'nones'?

We can only hope so.

Insanity creates a quest for sanity.