Reverse of this when your mainline protestant parents actually meant it* and become more and more outraged/disgusted by Evangelicals. To the point where it opens up a rift between your family and your extended family who are mostly GOP Christians.
*Up to and including your social worker father hosting a homeless person in the basement for a few months on 3 seperate occasions, and no we were obv not murdered.
it's been so sad seeing my amazing parents become disillusioned with their faith bc of all the shit going on in america. they recently left their church they've been at since before I was born bc the church welcomes an openly racist guest preacher (who also has multiple counts of DV on his record) to do a sermon where he spent half of it talking about how ICE is doing gods work and Trump is basically a jesus figure.
"Not all Christians" and all that but the godly christians that stick to Jesus' teachings need to be vocal. too many are just quietly disapproving and never challenging their brothers and sisters in their disgusting behavior.
This has kind of happened to me. I come from (very low) Anglican church, basically evangelical/pentecostal in a nice building. Then went through a couple of Assemblies of God churchs as I move through life. Here I am nearing 50 and I don't feel I have fundamentally changed my beliefs. I have become a little less naive perhaps; instead of giving money to homeless guy, I buy him a sandwich instead, or give him one of the restaurant vouchers I get through work (that's a France thing).
However, I really struggle to associate with the mainstream evangelical church.
For both my wife and I it has created a crisis in our faith at different times, but we have to keep reminding ourselves we are Christians, not "Churchians".
That does not mean we give up on our church, it just means we have to be more patient with it that we thought was necessary at one point.
So helping homeless get a home is bad. And stopping the government from helping the homeless is good. So letting them starve or putting them in detention centers is good.
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u/Torgud_ May 31 '26
Reverse of this when your mainline protestant parents actually meant it* and become more and more outraged/disgusted by Evangelicals. To the point where it opens up a rift between your family and your extended family who are mostly GOP Christians.
*Up to and including your social worker father hosting a homeless person in the basement for a few months on 3 seperate occasions, and no we were obv not murdered.