I prefer saying “Be like Christ, go find a cross to die on for someone else, and leave me the hell alone”
Personally I respect most of what I remember reading about this Jesus character. But it is exactly as you said- it seems like he’s worshipped instead of actually followed as an example.
This article considers the blurred lines between male friendship and homoeroticism in 18th-century Methodism. It considers possible cases of transgressive male sexual acts among Methodist preachers, evaluates contemporary claims made about the sexual proclivities of leading Methodists, and considers the social location of 18th-century Methodism as a dangerous underworld of deviant religiosity whose centres of activity were often perched on the edge of sites of social exclusion. The ‘effeminacy’ of George Whitefield and the lack of heterosexual passion in his life are offered as a mode of examining the homosociality that existed within the heteronormative world of 18th-century Methodism.
Especially since it’s a symbol with very specific meaning in the bible. The fact that they’re willing to just let that go to not be associated with LGBT anything goes to show its about homophobia, not religion. Jesus is facepalming right now.
Not necessarily.
If you remove the transgressors and those who do not say yes for everything, the status quo’s views are left unchecked and then they are able to pull the remaining students closer to their ideology.
The idea of radicalization from isolation appears is several examples, and it doesn’t end well some times.
On the other hand, more integrated groups still are impacted by the outside groups and cannot get so radical as easily as the other case.
Sometimes a rainbow is just a rainbow. And what about the rainbow in Christian mythology? She could be celebrating Noah’s covenant with ‘God’. The people who want to go backwards are our greatest threat.