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Middle Church
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Middle Church
@middlechurch
Middle Collegiate Church: Welcoming. Artistic. Inclusive. Bold. Revolutionary Love Conference organizer, and troublemakers for a better world.
- If you’re a reporter, don’t you dare call this a victory for religious people. Millions of us just had *our* religious freedom stolen.
- “You shall not use God’s name in vain” is not about cursing. It’s for blasphemy like using prayer to hide why you won’t pass laws to stop kids dying.
- Wild to watch Christians who praise Jesus feeding the 5,000 shout about how poor kids shouldn’t get lunch.
- Some common ways antisemitism shows up in churches, and what to do instead 🧵 “The Jews killed Jesus.” No. Jesus was executed by the Roman Empire for resisting imperial rule. (continue below)
- The most fundamental lie is that we can thrive while our neighbor suffers.
- white folksName something that people think is in the Bible but isn’t.
- Jesus never said "Blessed is the Suburban Lifestyle Dream." Ideology that hates poor people is theology that hates God.
- Things that do not offend God: Dressing up in costumes. Magic & witches. Ouija boards. Delighting in eerie things. Things that offend God deeply: Poverty. Racism. Homelessness. Patriarchy. Homophobia. Religious persecution. Transphobia. Medical debt. Prioritize accordingly.
- Number of times the Bible demands a free market economy: 0 Number of times it demands we care for the most vulnerable: 300+ Yet a strange number of “biblical literalists” obsessed with the former.
- Replying to @middlechurchBringing life into the world is a choice to co-create with God and one another. To forcibly conscript this gift is blasphemy. And to do it in Jesus’ name is a stench before God.
- If you don’t want people sleeping on subways, house them.
- God has such bigger dreams for you than dutifully obeying capitalism
- “It’s easier to fly a rocket into space than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” - Jesus, probably
