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If your core values can be negotiated or otherwise compromised - you never had any genuine #CoreValues at all.
#wankerbutternoodles #NoMorals #NoEthics #TrashyPeople #PersonalCharacter #Morality #CoreValues
If your core values can be negotiated or otherwise compromised - you never had any genuine #CoreValues at all.
#wankerbutternoodles #NoMorals #NoEthics #TrashyPeople #PersonalCharacter #Morality #CoreValues
"Pope Leo suggested on Friday that Christian political leaders who start wars should go to confession & assess whether they are following the teachings of Jesus, without naming any specific leaders or conflicts.
'Do those Christians who bear grave responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility & courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession?' the pope asked in a speech to priests."
~ Joshua McElwee
"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."
~ Michael Mellette
"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)
~ Sarah Stankorb
#Trump #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #morality
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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/we-must-call-christian-nationalism
(continued from /4)
"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...
religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."
"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."
"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)
~ Sarah Stankorb
#Trump #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #morality
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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/we-must-call-christian-nationalism
"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."
~ Robert P. Jones
"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."
"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."
~ Robert P. Jones
"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."
~ Michael Mellette
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