Category: Only heritical to some
Does the alt-right hate the light?
I have some fresh heresy for you. It will probably upset Tommy Robinson, so you know it is going to be good.
We will start with a well-known passage:
Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
John 3:19-21, Bible, NET
I’m going to ignore the bit where it links up with a passage about how you must be saved and look at the surface truth. Specifically, Strong says of the word translated as “light” here that it “is used to denote truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity congruous with it”.
Thank you for bearing with me in the setup. Now we can read this as “everyone who does evil deeds hates the light of truth”. Does that remind you of anyone or any group of anyone in the current culture and political climate?
For me, this describes the pathological way some folks cling to destructive and disproven things, such as those in the Flat Earth movement, the AntiVaxxers, the alt-right, those who insist wokism is what is wrong with the country, and those who teach empathy is evil. Don’t even get me started on how some seem to think that Trump is akin to the second coming, with all the evidence to the contrary. The weird, obsessive belief that Antifa is a terrorist organisation rather than a movement against fascism is another one that flees from the light of truth.
So here’s my heresy for today. Those groups that hide from the light of truth prefer darkness (to be hidden) because their deeds are (or contribute overall to) evil. (No duh!). Therefore, the deeds of the (mostly) far right cannot be deeds that have “been done in God”.
Not that most people who’d be willing to read a blog called Heresy is Brill should need to be told that.
To sum up, we should shine the light of truth in all directions to repel the schemes of those who love to remain hidden in darkness.
Do you disagree too?
Be the resident alien
To be a Christian is to deny yourself and follow Christ, so Christianity rubs against every earthly culture. It is meant to. You should be a decent, good-mannered citizen, but you should never feel at home. You are to be a resident alien.
The Christian Case for Liberalism, Tim Farron
Facts – does your heresy have them?
You beautiful heretic, I like the way you think.
Not assisting someone is a sin, I think
Jesus taught that if you failed to help the least of the people, you failed to help him.
This will probably upset the religious right, so don’t tell them that feeding the poor and housing the homeless is a biblical responsibility. (Don’t even get started on visiting people in prison)
It turns out that Christmas is for everyone not just Christian nationalists
I wasn’t original after all
I recently posted a heresy shower thought that Jesus was a refugee. It turns out, a preacher got there first. Who’d’ve thunk it?
We can see this through the different characters in the story and some of the imagery; a pregnant young woman, a husband scared of scandal, a baby born in the manger, Magi from the East who have to risk speaking to Herod in order to ascertain the birth of a new King, shepherds in the fields struggling to make ends meet and a family at risk who have to flee and take refuge in Egypt. All of these characters in their own circumstance, were vulnerable.
Jesus the migrant: a Christmas journey, Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana