https://churchleaders.com/news/510090-anti-christian-bias-task-force-religious-discrimination.html
This so-called 'Anti-Christian Bias Task Force' is part of Trump's plan to weaponize the Justice Department and his Evangelical allies are eager to cooperate and seek a position of preference and favour in US society and the legal system.
We're told the Zelenskiy regime in Ukraine stands for freedom and liberal democracy. In the United States the First Amendment is often invoked as the foundation from which all the other freedoms spring. This would include the freedom of religion and nations like Russia and China are frequently castigated for denying these rights and freedoms. And yet, we see the Zelenskiy government (which embraces the fascist remnants and permutations of the World War II era) denying these basic freedoms to large sections of its population. Kyiv has intervened and has banned expressions of religion that it does not approve of - those elements of Orthodoxy that retain historical and liturgical ties to Russia. Though the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (UOC) denounced the 2022 Russian invasion and has broken formal ties with the Moscow Patriarchate, this is insufficient in the eyes of the Zelenskiy government. Because the UOC was part of the Moscow Patriarchate it must be eradicated.
https://breakpoint.org/thank-god-for-constantine/
It is Stonestreet that misunderstands the impact of Constantine and the result of his legalization. The fact that he put the cross on soldier's shields already marked a turning point - the identification of the Kingdom of Heaven with the legions of Rome. It is literally difficult to conceive of something more satanic than this.
A follow up to:
https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-ugly-christian-life.html
The commenter to the previous Rowlands piece innocently asked about Matthew 5 and the command to love enemies. And rightly so as this effectively destroys Rowlands' argument. And this passage is far from alone. Rowlands is advocating for a Christianity that is opposed to New Testament ethics - and yet it's a value system that tickles ears and effectively reigns within the contemporary Evangelical Church.
https://adfontesjournal.com/andrew-koperski/christians-in-the-employ-of-the-pagan-empire/
In many ways the linked article simply repeats and rehashes many of the same old arguments used against those who argue for Kingdom ethics in the Early Church – and the narrative of their subsequent corruption. The line of reasoning followed by Koperski is in keeping with the arguments and the muddying of the waters tactics used by the likes of Peter Leithart.
https://issuesetc.org/2022/06/29/1802-just-war-dr-jonathan-shaw-6-29-22/
The fact that Jonathan Shaw is a retired military chaplain
already discredits him and identifies him as one sold out to the military
machine, and one that was willing to make endless compromises in order to do
so. Military chaplains are not worthy of any regard or respect. They are to be
rebuked.
That said, let's consider some of his points with regard to
the Just War tradition.
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/the-death-of-christian-pacifism.html
Tooley's powers of
perception must immediately be questioned when he asserts that Neo-Anabaptist
Christian Pacifism was so prevalent in 2015. The position has always been (since the fourth century) an
almost inconsequential minority at best.
This deals with a series of questions regarding where to read about some of the Christian interaction with The Enlightenment especially in terms of political and social ideology and ethics. Additionally there is the question of the Westminster Confession's view of Romans 13 and why I believe it to be in error – and are there any pre-Reformation instances that would support my view?
Finally, what of civil disobedience? Is it ever appropriate?
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Museum-of-Christian-Culture-opens-in-St.-Petersburg-53335.html
It is entirely appropriate that this farcical museum contains
a Constantine Room, for this form of counterfeit Christianity has its genesis
in the fourth century. Begun by Constantine, the Christianisation project would
be completed by the reign of Theodosius II. Seventeen centuries later the
Church has never recovered from it and its poison has worked its way into the
farthest recesses of the Church on Earth. Indeed there are few who seem able to
question its basic suppositions, and even fewer who can divorce their thinking
from its assumptions.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has been
apostate for many years but the recent full inclusion of every extreme form of
sodomy seems shocking to some – but it shouldn't be.
