Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must "submit" to men.During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump's second term in office."God is moving m...
  • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Ofc Trump has a fucking faith office. I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if he tried implementing biblical laws like some type of Christian version of Sharia law, or called for teaching creationism as fact in schools.

    • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      100% this is definitely what he’s going to do. Use Christianity as a weapon, and cite things like this and the prosperity gospel, then ignore any of the messages of Christ. None of that Jesusy stuff you know?

      I grew up in the Bible belt, and had some truly awful experiences with people like this that made me distance myself from identifying as a Christian for a long time. I didn’t want to go to church and be around these kinds of people, but I realized I never stopped believing in the importance of the beautiful messages I learned literally from as early as I can remember.

      The book of Matthew talks about Jesus passing through a city and someone asking him, of all of the information in the old testament, what is the most important to remember? Jesus answers the question by summarizing the 10 commandments into 2:

      The first is love thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, and all thy mind. The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself.

      Literally a message straight from Jesus telling you, if you take away nothing else from this book, then remember these two things. JD Vance has tried to publicly argue that the second part isn’t really something you necessarily have to agree with as a Christian. This is so very important to remember when they try to use Christianity as a weapon, and something I’ve thought about a lot.

      The first message is love thy God with everything you are. The second, is like unto it (it goes without saying), love thy neighbor as thyself.

      If you believe God created man in his image, and you truly love him with your entire heart, your entire mind, and your entire soul, then you must also strive to have that same love for yourself because you recognize you are part of God’s creation.

      In order to truly love God with everything you are, it goes without saying you must also love your neighbor and recognize your neighbor is also part of God’s creation.