Chris Kratzer > Quotes

“You don’t have to see Jesus as a white, AR-15 carrying, pick-up driving, Rambo-Republican wrapped in the American flag, you choose to.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Sadly, what crack cocaine is to a drug addict, “repentance” has become to conservative Evangelical Christianity.”
― Chris Kratzer, Leatherbound Terrorism

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird”
― Chris Kratzer, Leatherbound Terrorism

“There is neither condemnation nor conditions in Christ.”
― Chris Kratzer, Leatherbound Terrorism

“For Grace is the great equalizer—none are better, only different.[19] All are loved, all are affirmed, and all are valued and equal in capacity—Jesus makes it so. Equality isn’t just an important social value; it’s nothing less than what the Gospel looks like when manifested upon the earth.”
― Chris Kratzer, Leatherbound Terrorism

“You don’t need biblical inerrancy and Bible worship in order to encounter God, but it sure does help to control people.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“In fact, here’s the gospel of conservative, Evangelical Christianity… ”Everything is wrong with you, and you need to believe and become like us in order to fix it, or else.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Hell hath no fury like an Evangelical with a Bible, a conspiracy theory, and an appetite for revenge.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“protecting and prospering of your white, male, heterosexual, right-wing, conservative, Christian faith system of control.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“You can’t get enough of it. He’s stirred up within you a frenzy of orgasmic self-centeredness you can’t put down. F*ck everyone else; this is your life, your country, your guns, and your God.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“The concern of Jesus is not that we love too much, extend Grace too extravagantly, rest too comfortably in the goodness of God, or resist the religious spirit too vehemently. Rather, it’s that we love less, extend less, rest less, and resist less.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Sometimes, the way you quote the Bible at me, it makes me want to vomit, too—if only a simple, right-cheek sneak would do.”
― Chris Kratzer, Leatherbound Terrorism

“We wonder how a “pussy-grabbing,” adulterous man can be elected President, and passionately be supported by many conservative Christians.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“This is the poisoned soil from which all self-righteousness, discrimination, hate, condemnation, division, religion, and bigotry grows.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Any “Christian” who is not consistently connecting to a “church” is deemed to be embarking on an empty journey.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Yes, people’s feedback can be helpful and life-giving, but only when placed under the voice of the Christ that lives within you, and whose mind is yours. The job of the Holy Spirit in your life isn’t to convict you of anything, but rather to convince you of your everything. Do you. Be you. Unafraid. That’s the voice of the Father calling you to life and true living.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“if you hear statements demanding that you should give your obedience to “what the Bible says,” what you are really hearing is a person’s demand that you should give your obedience to what they say the Bible says.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Their original intentions were likely noble and good, even contributing positive, important things to the Kingdom along the way.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“God, I thank you, that you have already given me all the strength, peace, joy, self-worth, confidence, faith, and assurance I need. I am whole, complete, secure, pure, unstoppable, and affirmed. Nothing in my past, present, or future, will define nor defeat me.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Donald Trump, Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham are nothing like Jesus. Sadly, not even close.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“In 2016 and again in 2020, Conservative Evangelicals were lost in the sea of materialism, capitalism, corruption, and hypocrisy as they endorsed their bloated orange Messiah. Trump embodied the shallow faith and deep rot that reflected their own souls. Through the love of politics, power, and money, the church relegated the message of Jesus into political t-shirts and bumper stickers. Christ became a prop or mascot of a forgotten faith.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Therefore, our job as the “church,” is to embark on our own spiritual journey, awaken to all that we are and She is, and out of that revelation do what we love to do in ways that honor Grace, and deeply serve the humanity we encounter along our path.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“To be sure, evil is evil, but the cries of the oppressed ring wholly different from the barks of the oppressor. These are distinctions that must be distinguished and never confused, as much as the oppressor may desire to do so in order to camouflage their poison as the cure.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“With all the ways that you spiritually justify the marginalization and discrimination of anything and everything that threatens your faith system of white, male, heterosexual, right-wing, conservative, Christian supremacy--maybe, just maybe, the real reason why you believe being gay is a sin is because you want to.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“As Christ is all, and in all. His mind is everywhere.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Here’s a message you probably won’t hear at church this morning--the Gospel isn’t an offer of what could be, but rather a pronouncement of what already is. All are saved, or all are not. Faith is merely awakening to the wholeness you already possess, and the God of Love who authored it. Therefore, the Christian life is not a test--it’s a rest. It’s not about becoming someone tomorrow who you aren’t today, through behavioral modification and sin management. Rather, it’s simply the journey of our actions effortlessly catching up to our identities in Christ, as we rest in Grace. In fact, as a finished work of the cross, there is nothing to improve in you--only everything to believe. You lack no spiritual blessing, as wholeness and holiness are completely yours already--not because of your performance, but because of His. You are the delight of the Father, and nothing less than the beauty of His face. Now believe it, and live it. Throw aside the shackles of guilt, condemnation, and shame that imprison you. Turn off the voices of insecurity, inferiority, and self-criticism that haunt you. Be free. Do you. Live a life shining your truth in ways that reflect Grace. Grace is brave. Be brave.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“I love real people more than false peace.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“When you worship a madman as President, who is a racist, sinful, sexist bully, and whose rhetoric and policies are harming the lives of innocent people, there is no “agree to disagree” or just “get along.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“Salvation was never ever about human response, but always about what already is, and forever shall be--your irrevocable, irreversible, and unconditional communion and inclusion with God.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church

“This is the evil that seeks to divide our hearts into good or evil, souls into saved or lost, people into affirmed or condemned, when all that God has created is fully good, saved, and equally affirmed from the foundation of eternity.”
― Chris Kratzer, Stupid Shit Heard In Church