Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place! For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.”
Matthew 26:52, NET
Author: Matt
This should really upset Tommy Robinson.
I started a thread of Bible quotes that Christian nationalists kind of have to ignore for their heresy to work. Here’s one that they will really hate:
The resident foreigner who lives with you must be to you as a native citizen among you; so you must love the foreigner as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34, NET
Long before he was a preacher, Jesus was a refugee.
His mum and dad fled to Egypt for part of Jesus’ early life. Does that mean all Christians should be all for taking in refugees?
The world needs social sovereignty
In a move of modern heresy, the Mastodon blog has called for governments to get out of corporate-owned social media and to federated and free social media. Big business will hate that, but truth should probably be free.
Ask your government if this heresy is right for them (it is).
This should upset Tommy Robinson
I woke up today to a news headline on social media about the CoE putting out a message to Tommy Robinson’s Christian nationalism that this is not how the faith works at all.
Here’s the skinny.
C of E to challenge Tommy Robinson’s ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ message
Church leaders respond to far-right appropriation of Christian symbols with ‘Outsiders welcome’ message
The Church of England is to launch a poster campaign aimed at challenging the anti-migrant message of Tommy Robinson, whose “Unite the Kingdom” movement has urged its supporters to join a carols event next weekend to “put the Christ back into Christmas”.
The posters, which will go on display at bus stops, say “Christ has always been in Christmas” and “Outsiders welcome”. They will also be available for local churches to download and display over the festive period.
The Guardian, Harriet Sherwood, Sun 7 Dec 2025
While I, for one, like a bit of heresy, I still thought it might be fun to find bible quotes that Tommy Robinson would find upsetting.
Here’s the first one – you can’t be a nationalist and a Christian because Christians are not part of this world.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one. They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.
John 17:14-16, NET
For a whole load of work calling Robinson’s heresy what it is, the JPIT (nice folks, terrible acronym) have put out a whole bunch of resources for churches to use.
This bible passage should upset the Christian right
“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination; those who commit adultery; those who break promises; and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Malachi 3:5 NET (emphisis added)
In a time of disengagement, voting can be a beautiful heresy
In a time when not caring about elections is normal, voting can be a beautiful heresy.
Do I vote? Yes, always.
So Why does Jesus Have Long Hair?
The Anglican Split
There may well be a few accusations of heresy in the Anglican world after a big split.
Anglicanism, known in the UK as The Church of England, has split asunder. Prior to this split, the first among equals (essentially the leader) in the Anglican world was the Archbishop of Canterbury. That has now changed.
A large and more conservative element within The Anglican Communion (Gafcon) had formed their own thing within the wider stage of global Anglicanism. Very recently, they declared that they were the true Anglicans and those who remain under Canterbury were not. This kind of excommunicates the Church of England. That sounds an awful lot like an accusation of heresy to me.
What’s got Gafcon’s knickers in a twist are things like the appointment of a female archbishop because this is a boys-only club (no girls allowed) or something. They are also upset that Anglican vicars are allowed to be okay with same-sex marriages.
The issues which divide the global Anglican Communion included the ordination of women bishops in 2014 and the acceptance of same-sex relationships in 2023.
Many conservative Christians believe that only men should be consecrated as bishops.
The BBC giving a more balanced report if you like that sort of thing.
Choose your heresy – whichever side you pick, you’ll pretty much be something of a heretic to the other side. Gafcon have gone on record calling the current state of the Church of England “in apostasy”. To be an apostate is just a fancy way to say being a heretic.
The Strangest Political Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of
Some heritcal humour (aka dad jokes)
We always go to the pub when we leave the church
It’s a thirst after righteousness
Gods: Dogs vs Cats
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
According to some of his contempararies,
Jesus was a heretic.
1400s heresy
A completely normal thing to read about.
Healing as heresy
Now, that’s a heresy I can get behind.
In the beginning…
The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
What’s your favourate heresy?
Share your favourate heresy, either religious or cultural.
Do you want The Rapture in your heresy?
Tim Mackle says we’re wrong about the Bible
A hereical view of the rapture
I saw this on social media and had to share it.
If you promised to make me rich, would you fault me for having doubts?
Imagine that you and I are sitting in the pub on a Sunday afternoon. You turn to me and say, “Soon, but I can’t tell you when, I will give you half of everything I have, which will leave you the 98th richest man in the world.”
If I had doubts, would you blame me?
This is the problem that the doctrine of “you must believe to be saved” has problems. Belief is not something one chooses. Either you find a claim credible or you don’t.
Calvinism can get away with this teaching as it teaches that God’s grace is irresistible. That irresistible grace is predestined to be given to some. Thus, you or I believing is not something we had any say in and “you are saved by grace and not anything you did” holds true.
If you make salvation a choice, people choose hell or choose heaven by their belief or lack thereof. That’s not a choice. Saying the prayer to go to heaven is something I could boast about, but believing in the first place, not so much.
This is actually the problem of free will. If we have free will, there is nothing we can do to save ourselves; it has to be given to us. If we lack free will, salvation was out of our hands to begin with. Either way, there’s probably no choice involved.
Unless you subscribe to modern evangelical doctrine, and then it very much is your fault if you go to hell because of free will. Just don’t squint too hard at the logic there.
Feel free to show this to your evangelical pastor. I could use the exposure that being preached against would bring.