An Evangelical man named Phillip recently sent me the following email:
You are very dishonest and deceptive in your attempts to defame Christianity because you hate God. You are an apostate: You once professed faith in Christ and now deny Him. That’s your business. God gave you that choice. But, at least be honest. Kenny Bishop is also an apostate, and God’s Word informs us that those who profess and later go back and denounce their supposed faith were never true believers. (“Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has born of God. By this it is EVIDENT who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God..,”) I John 3:8-10.
If you are going to be a critic of Christians and Christianity, at least have the integrity to be an honest one.
Phillip read all of one post on this site, Southern Gospel Singer Kenny Bishop is Now a Gay United Church of Christ Pastor. This post about a popular Evangelical Southern Gospel singer turned married gay United Church of Christ pastor has attracted a lot of attention since 2019. One Jesus-loving homophobe after another has left a comment on this post, condemning Bishop (and me) to the eternal flames of Hell. Hey, I am heterosexual. What’s up with that? Oh, that atheist thing. I forgot . . . 🙂 You see, in the double insulated world of Evangelicalism, the only thing worse than being gay is being an atheist. Imagine the emails and comments I would get if I were a gay atheist or a transgender atheist. Why, the Phillips of the world would lose their collective shit!
After reading one post, Phillip, the all-knowing, all-seeing born-again Christian, concluded:
- I am dishonest
- I am deceptive
- I defame Christianity
- I hate God
- I am an apostate
Philip goes on to say that I never was a True Christian®. Keep in mind, he read one post. Yet, from a post about Kenny Bishop — one of my all-time favorite Southern Gospel singers — he was able to “discern” all of these things about me. Much like other Evangelical zealots, Phillip believes he has some sort of supernatural gift that enables him to judge people without actually getting to know them. However, God says to Phillip in Proverbs 18:13: Answering before listening is both stupid and rude.
And all the atheists said, AMEN!
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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I mean, at least Philip has very clear criteria about who the True Christians are.
…and based on that criteria, they must be super rare. I’ve certainly never known one. Maybe they’re like the Tzadikim Nistarim?
Well, Phillip is another asshole for Christ. Happy to say anything he can to antagonize people, and wound them. Funny how his opinion isn’t worth hearing, and not worth anyone, anywhere, losing any sleep over it. I’ve come to a conclusion about Trump supporters and white evangelicals, with which there is an 80% overlap. The purpose of their lives is to troll others, say vicious stuff, and generally act like thwarted children. The Christian ones just pretend to themselves that their vicious tongues are loving and godly, while proving who they are by the fruit of their spirit. Funny, but “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control…”– Galatians 5:22-23. Not seeing any of the fruit of the Spirit in these types. NOT. ONE. BIT.
Bless his little heart. He is yet another Christian who cannot fathom that there are a tremendous number of us who do not take his sacred writings, deities, and demi-deities seriously.
Just another evangelic-hole. Yawn.
Morbid. These types of people are quite morbid. That’s why they come up with the imagery that they do.