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“there are plenty of Christians who may claim persecution who are actually suffering due to their own foolish or unrighteous behavior.”
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
“On Sunday, contemporary Christians are eager to worship a crucified Savior who loved and forgave His enemies. But on Monday, we want permission to behave like the schoolyard bully who uses fear and anger to get ahead.”
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
“As long as a person appears devout, uses the right words, and participates in the right religious activities, we don’t look much deeper. They are often given a pass on their anger, greed, jealousy, bitterness, lust, or bigotry. Such a person might be acceptable in a church today, but Jesus said they are unfit for God’s kingdom.”
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
“It is no accident that those who are most likely to believe in the myth of meritocracy are young, upper-class, white Americans.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes the same contrast between the myth of scarcity and the reality of abundance in God’s kingdom. If we live in constant fear of not having enough—like Pharaoh did—it will lead us to greed and injustice in the name of self-preservation. If, however, we believe Jesus and trust that with God there is always an abundance, then we can be set free from a self-centered posture and be empowered to truly love others.”
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
― What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
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