Christian Nationalism is a giant threat to our country. A danger to women, to minorities, to the marginalized and to democracy itself. While these white, Christian nationalists believe they’re saving the country from heathenism, what they’re really offering is a theocracy of top down control with themselves at the top. We must see this threat for what it is, and that starts with understanding. Tim Whitaker is the founder of the New Evangelicals, an inclusive, Jesus-centered community that holds space for those marginalized by the evangelical church and advocates for systemic change. Raised deep in the evangelical world – Tim had a crisis of faith watching his church leaders embrace a man who was so antithetical to what he had been taught to believe. He now holds the toxic churches and their leaders accountable, while still offering a home of faith to his fellow Christians. Please join us for this incredibly engaging conversation. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.thenewevangelicals.com/ Twitter: @newvangelicals Facebook:The New Evangelicals Instagram: @thenewevangelicals YouTube: @TheNewEvangelicals As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirlhttps://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://sundaysfordogs/politicsgirl
I respect Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Libertarians and Jehovas Witnesses for their commitment to their dogma and can find a lot of good in what the four political theories above have to bring to bear even if I am never going to be one.
What does Atheism have in common w political philosophies?
Do you want to be right or do you want to make society better? Not everyone is a movement is the same but the majority per my perception (1/2)
Thats just fucking hubris. It's exhibit A of why would anyone not a dick be an atheist. Most non dicks I know say they are agnostics even though they are atheists cause they dont wanna stand with dicks
The safest, richest, most stable, freest, and, by many counts, most moral countries in the world are secular, have a large percentage of their population not believing in God. One cavate they aren't forced into disbelief as in being communistic or capitalist as in USSR, Albania, Egypt, Turkey, etc
I get kind of worked up about attempts to rob young people of the few interesting things that we really know about nature and the universe. This anti-evolution content is designed as a kind of inoculation against gaining further knowledge on the topic.
It contains neat little counter arguments that prompt kids to stop listening before they hear anything really interesting.
"[Darwin] avoided discussing his views on religion in public, but his private writings (from the Beagle era onwards) show that he was increasingly critical of theology and Biblical literalism, and had many doubts about God, including concerns about the problem of evil. In a letter of 1879, he described himself as an #agnostic rather than an atheist, but stated that belief in evolution is not incompatible with #theism."
Citation: Letter to John Fordyce, 7 May 1879, transcribed at the Darwin Correspondence Project
It is not generally known that Cecilia Payne was precocious even as a child in church primary school in England. There she developed a protocol for testing the efficacy of prayer by dividing her exams into two groups: one group prayed for success on exams, the other did not. Because she got better marks in the group without intercessory prayer, Payne was #agnostic thereafter. She was probably not the first to make such an experiment, but she was definitely not the last. #astronomy et al.