How did the Christian church go from following someone who taught us to love our neighbors and expect persecution… to a church that oppresses its neighbors and enacts persecution? It isn’t just the mean ole’ United States… Jesus’s own disciples rejected this servant messiah from the get-go.
Yep to this sentence: “Maybe the original sin of the Christian church in the United States is the notion that we are a Christian empire. “
AND in Europe prior to the founding of our nation. Remember the Inquisition? Our founding fathers knew this history and attempted to avoid that form of imperialism in our own Constitution.
Many of our founding fathers were deists and not theists, unbeknownst to many “Christians.”
Yep to this sentence: “Maybe the original sin of the Christian church in the United States is the notion that we are a Christian empire. “
AND in Europe prior to the founding of our nation. Remember the Inquisition? Our founding fathers knew this history and attempted to avoid that form of imperialism in our own Constitution.
Many of our founding fathers were deists and not theists, unbeknownst to many “Christians.”