As we all know, the woke left just hate religion. It’s all “dark ages” and “fairy story” stuff that’s the only thing standing between us and the glorious utopia promised by Marx.
Of course, it all depends on what religion we’re talking about. Islam, for instance, despite being ultra-conservative, misogynist and homophobic, is revered by the left. “Indigenous” religion is simply beyond reproach.
Christianity, on the other hand, is right out. Unless it’s the correct type of Christianity.
ABC viewers have complained that the public broadcaster showed footage of Hillsong easter services rather than focusing on “mainstream churches”[…]
You can hardly blame ABC viewers for being confused about what constitutes mainstream Christianity.
If you get your religious news from the ABC you would be quite convinced that a mainstream church is one led by a transgendered minister preaching to wooden pews barely populated by a mardi gras of “allies” about how Jesus was actually a socialist revolutionary who, regardless of whether or not He actually existed, serves as a useful example to support whatever woke fad is being pushed from the pulpit this week.
For once, we’re not talking about Fr Rod “Tilty McJesus” Bower.
The Drum aired a story over the Easter weekend celebrating “the first trans person to be inducted into an Australian mainstream church”.
You might imagine that a mainstream church ceases to be mainstream when it appoints a transgendered minister. But such thoughts do not occur to journalists at our public broadcaster.
The only type of Christianity that the ABC-left approve of is one that actively denigrates Christian theology. Ignore what the Bible actually says: these woketards know better.
Inside the church, the ABC reporter referenced Biblical teaching that God created humans as male and female. This was dismissed by the transgendered minister as “an incredibly ideological statement that ignores the experience of people like me”.
That may be so, but it is also bedrock Christian belief. A bit like the Christian teaching on marriage.
Now ‘people like me’ are perfectly free to pursue a religion that makes a god of their individual experience. But they are not entitled to call it mainstream Christianity. Actually, don’t even call it Christianity.
Which may be why actual Christians are voting with their feet. The ABC can swoon over the Uniting Church and its “Rainbow” ministers all they like, but a great many Christians are deciding that bums are for pews, not punching.
Pews in churches which don’t frantically embrace every far-left cause imaginable.
The prize for being considered mainstream Christianity by the ABC is to be loved by people who will never darken your doors on a Sunday.
Meanwhile, actual mainstream churches that deliver the timeless Christian message in a timely style are packing them in, even as the Twitter mob shouts “crucify them”.
Spectator Australia
If the ABC ever bothered to read the Bible, they might consider these words from Timothy:
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts.
But, hey, what does the Bible know about Christianity?
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