Marxist and Harvard law professor, Mark Tushnet, believes the cultural wars have been won and that the Left must treat conservative Christians as hostiles, much in the manner the allies treated Japan and Germany after World War II, granting “no quarter of clemency”.
In his deluded mind, he confidently believes that “they lost, we won”, and that the left must pursue this advantage, taking the offense to “take up ‘aggressively liberal positions’ because they will no long meet resistance”.
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Tushnet, a leftover leftist elite from the sixties, is urging more radical pursuits, “insisting that now is the time to overturn “key cases” that have hindered the liberal cause”.
He has drawn the line in the sand and is specifically targeting Christians, read about it on the next page.
“The reason the command not to fear was so prevalent in Scripture was because (as now) there was so much for people to be afraid of. We’d be delusional to look around at the world we’re living in and not be initially afraid. With the mutli-headed horrors running non-stop through our news feeds, it’s so easy to become spiritually disoriented, to lose sight of anything sure and steady. When that happens in your soul; when faith leaks out, fear seeps in–and you start sinking.
And once that fear becomes the dominant force in your religion, you end up becoming more and more terrified, more desperate, more jittery, more reactionary in your responses.
You grow more hostile to those you perceive as outsiders, more contemptible of those who are different, more drawn to protection and violence and aggression.
In other words: You become less and less like Jesus.
What you’re seeing right now in the wake of the terrorist attacks from so many professed Christians is not Jesus, or the loving, radically hospitable, interdependent community which sprang from his life and ministry.
It may have commandeered his name and appropriated some select quotes and have a similar veneer, but it is not Christianity.
It’s simply Americhristianity.
It is a Frankensteined faith made as much of rabid nationalism, political posturing, and fearful self-preservation, as it is the foot-washing, enemy forgiving, humble hearted, suffering Christ of the Gospels. It’s a flailing, angry, violent monster that once began as a noble experiment in Life.
Most American Christians have lived so long in Americhristianity that they simply accept that this is how their faith is supposed to look and sound and react. They live in an echo chamber of agreement in churches and talk shows and podcasts. That’s why when Christian politicians rushed to close their doors and borders to Syrian refugees, as they ramped up the inflammatory generalizations about Muslims, and as they called for immediate airstrikes, so many stood and applauded and amen-d, because they now have fear as their default setting and it feels natural.
Never mind that the Gospel is overflowing with the words and examples of Jesus on how to love lavishly, how to pour oneself out for another, how to bless even those who curse you. We’ve almost come to laugh that stuff off as meaningless; as if Jesus either didn’t really mean what he said or that what he said is no longer useful to us.
That Jesus; (the one from the Gospels) really doesn’t fit into Americhristianity. He’s too soft, too tolerant, too vulnerable. He’s not brash enough, his foreign policy not tough enough. In fact, the faith that so many in the West now call Christianity retains only the smallest sliver of Christ; conveniently just enough to get people saved or send them to Hell.
Outside of that, the rest is purely Stars and Stripes and American Dreams, all wrapped around a cross. We’re perfectly content to demand revenge when we get hurt, to live fat and happy surrounded by poverty, and to pick fights whenever we’re confronted—confident that Jesus approves of all of it.
We’re not sinister in this, just oblivious. Americhristainity only allows us to see God in our own materialistic, xenophobic, retaliatory image.
But Jesus was born as a homeless traveler whose family struggled to find welcome.
He lived and ministered in poverty at the mercy of others’ generosity.
He had a table of hospitality that offered no exceptions.
He held more power than anyone on the planet, yet never used that power in force in the face of oppression or violence, even upon his own body.
He was a blessed peacemaker.
This Jesus told of a heroic, Jew-despised Samaritan who modeled sacrificial mercy for the religious onlookers and for you and me. We’re still learning.
And time and time again, Jesus commanded his followers to choose faith over fear. It’s time we do so.
The heart of Christianity is inclusion and welcome and invitation. It is trust and contentment and hope that cannot be overtaken. It is serving and yielding and sacrificing.
It is not this scared narcissism that vilifies the other and sanctions bigotry and demands blood.
I love Christianity, just not this Americhristianity.
I don’t think this is helping anyone.
Until we who seek to follow Jesus choose to emulate the actual life of Christ and not the characteristics of our country, we’ll always be living a counterfeit religion—and we’ll always be afraid.
I’m not afraid.”
Freeing Christians from Americhristianity
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/11/17/freeing-christians-from-americhristianity/
Harvard is a freaking JOKE these days. Liberal cesspool.
Sounds like you hate Muslims and want them slaughtered.
Do you know Palestinians are descendants of Shem whereas modern Israelis are from Japheth, through Ashkenaz, and aren’t even Semitic?
They’re the f**e Jews, the synagogue of Satan, “who say they are Jews but do lie” written of in Rev 3:9.
Christians side with the synagogue of Satan to kill the descendants of Abraham and Shem.
People forget that the nazis weren’t the soldiers it was the politics they used the German army the German solders were only doing their jobs
Where do you all get this crud…. Do you know who started harvard, yale? Any guess? Christians.
Jerry Deaton Where in the world did you assume that from my comment? I’m referring to him comparing Christians to nazis-yet Muslim extremists slaughter people daily.
Your lecture is a far too overboard.
First-I am Christian and am not even closely comparable to a $#%&!@* Second-I don’t believe Muslims are anything but a cult-completely opposite of anything good in religion.
I’ve watched enough horrible events proving Muslim extremists to be barbarically evil. Even the moderate Muslim-Shame on them for their following such evil.
EVIL HAS TAKEN OVER EDUCATION
This guy must of gotten his degrees from a cracker jack box.
Thank you miss Miss Julie and praise be to God the father And his son Jesus Christ! Hallelujah
HOPE YOU LIKE HELL .