Why is it that progressive Christianity seems to be so fucking far behind the assholes?
Nobody reports about it. A church like our partner church in South Africa, which has a kindergarten that allows Zulu children to learn English so they can get a higher education, in which AIDS orphans are cared for, in which young people who are HIV-positive are ministered to, in which the Reverend tries to aid young women who are forced to prostitute themselves in order to pay for their university tuition - and as far as I'm aware, all these things happen without putting the fear of Hell into people - such churches aren't big news, and they have better things to do than go around shouting at people who aren't interested.
As for why evangelicalism is so popular: My father, who is a Protestant reverend (which here means learning Latin, Greek, Hebrew, critical studies of the sources, and most emphatically not believing the Bible to be literally true, no matter said sources) says that it comforts people to have simple answers to their questions that do not require any further reflection. He also says that simple answers have the disadvantage of frequently being wrong.
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Nobody reports about it. A church like our partner church in South Africa, which has a kindergarten that allows Zulu children to learn English so they can get a higher education, in which AIDS orphans are cared for, in which young people who are HIV-positive are ministered to, in which the Reverend tries to aid young women who are forced to prostitute themselves in order to pay for their university tuition - and as far as I'm aware, all these things happen without putting the fear of Hell into people - such churches aren't big news, and they have better things to do than go around shouting at people who aren't interested.
As for why evangelicalism is so popular: My father, who is a Protestant reverend (which here means learning Latin, Greek, Hebrew, critical studies of the sources, and most emphatically not believing the Bible to be literally true, no matter said sources) says that it comforts people to have simple answers to their questions that do not require any further reflection. He also says that simple answers have the disadvantage of frequently being wrong.