'Evil and disgusting': Days-long Israeli LGBT festival planned near Sodom prompts biblical backlash
The Israeli government announced on Monday that this June, "the Dead Sea becomes Pride Land, the biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East," adding that "Pride rises at the lowest place on earth."
This celebration of degeneracy and non-straight lifestyle choices — set to take place near what is believed to be the site of Sodom, the city razed by God because of its brazen sexual corruption — will run 24 hours a day from June 1 to June 4.
'You won't see this anywhere else in the region.'
According the Jerusalem Post, the non-straight festival will raise a city in the desert featuring parties, a central performance arena, art complexes, "relaxation" areas, and "family-friendly areas with children's activities."
"This is not just another festival; it's the biggest thing we've done here," Aaron Cohen, the main producer behind "Pride Land," told the Post. "It's an experience that lives 24/7, from quiet visits to nights of Pride, with a living envelope of music and people."
The promotion of the event by the Israeli government — just one day after the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that one of its soldiers smashed a statue of the crucified Christ outside a church with a sledgehammer — prompted significant backlash among some conservative Christians.
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American theologian and pastor Dale Partridge tweeted, "The devil couldn’t have written it better. 'The lowest place on earth' 'The Dead Sea becomes pride land.'"
BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre raised the matter of whether his tax dollars might be subsidizing the event, then asked, "Can anyone very carefully explain to me why American Christians owe anything to this?"
Conservative commentator Michael Knowles insinuated that the Israeli government's announcement answered the question recently posed by the New York Times about the cause of the recent increase in meteor sightings overhead.
Knowles' colleague, Matt Walsh, called the planned festival "absolutely evil and disgusting."
Tomasz Froelich, an Alternative for Germany politician who serves in the European Parliament, noted that "the Patriarch of Jerusalem was denied access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday for security reasons, but there is comfort: The Pride can take place without a care!"
The eponymous host of BlazeTV's "The John Doyle Show" wrote, "God could do the funniest thing ever."
On Friday, the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., plugged the event, stating, "You won't see this anywhere else in the region."
While the Israeli government appears keen to get the word out about the Sodom-adjacent LGBT festival, the U.S. State Department has recommended that Americans reconsider travel to the country due to terrorism and civil unrest and instructed travelers to avoid crowds.
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'Anti-ICE' Christians mistake moral confusion for empathy
Christians are called to be people of truth. But when we fail to ground our thinking in biblical principles, we can end up telling inadvertent lies — and mischaracterizing fellow believers in the process.
Exhibit A: this post from a Christian writer and speaker, sharing with her Christian followers, regarding current events centered in Minneapolis.
Empathy for the hurting extends to all those who hurt, and plenty have been hurt by the assault on our borders over the past few years.
She writes:
I’m reading through the gospels right now, and I’m struck by what the leaders of Israel enticed the crowds to demand — that an innocent man be put to death and a murderer (Barabbas) be freed from prison and the obvious consequences of his egregious actions. This is the hallmark of an unjust society, where we vilify those who have done nothing wrong (and treat them like criminals), or we applaud and set free those who harm others.
She never mentions Minnesota or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but her followers’ responses make it abundantly clear they got (and “loved”) the intended message.
'Vilifying' crime?
Apparently the writer perceives illegal immigrants as “those who have done nothing wrong” who we are “vilifying” and “treating like criminals.” (Pro tip: Breaking a law makes you a criminal.) ICE agents, apparently, are “those who harm others” that we are supposedly “applauding” or “setting free.”
She goes on:
I am heartbroken by the current state of things in my country. Deeply troubled. Praying. Worrying, if I’m honest. I keep watching documentaries about tyranny and cult leaders and history.
Tyranny and cult leaders? Since we hear this from the left constantly, we know exactly what she’s trying to say.
And that’s what “deeply troubles” ME.
That the current administration — which is carrying out the federal government’s long-neglected role in protecting our borders and thus our communities — is somehow tyrannical. That those of us who support this, many of us who voted for this, are akin to a “cult.”
Thinking it through
I’m troubled by Christians who knee-jerk react to the world without thinking issues through biblically, as she demonstrates here:
I do understand the nature of evil — to call evil good and good evil.
My friend, we are not the ones confusing evil and good here. Let’s break it down.
- First, sin is evil. Period. So when we are talking about evil, we are talking about sin.
- Second, breaking the law is sin/evil. Unless the law directly contradicts the word of God.
Can we agree on those two principles?
If I break down your door to get into your home — even if I just walk in your unlocked door — that is a sin.
- It’s a sin because it’s against the law (and that law in no way contradicts the word of God).
- It’s also a sin because I am taking — stealing — something that belongs to you. Your home, your privacy, your sense of safety, your peace. I have no right to invade your space. I have no right to breach your border.
Profoundly hypocritical
Doors and locks exist for a reason, just like borders and guarded crossing points do. Those who advocate for open borders (identified by their yelling, “No one is illegal!”) live in homes with doors and locks. They are profoundly hypocritical.
They are worse than hypocritical actually. Because while they still seek to protect themselves, they are happy for other people to be stripped of that right. And for other people to have to deal with the loss of safety and peace.
Consider these females, all attacked and murdered by men here illegally: Kayla Hamilton, Ruby Garcia, Lizbeth Medina, Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Joselyn Toaquiza, Melody Waldecker, and Mollie Tibbetts.
And these women are hardly the only victims. In Texas alone, hundreds of people have died in recent years at the hands of people who entered illegally. I mention Texas because nobody else is tracking this particular statistic — Americans killed by illegal border-crossers.
Meantime thousands of illegal border-crossers who are also convicted murderers still roam free nationwide.
Of course, murder isn’t the only evil aided and abetted by illegal immigration. As we’ve seen in recent days from the same troubled state, fraud and taxpayer abuse is rampant as well, with wholly corrupt public officials turning a blind eye or benefiting from the scams.
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Law and sin
But even if an illegal border-crosser never committed another crime nor took a dime of taxpayer money — it would STILL not be wrong to send him/her home. There is a line to get in, there are people waiting in that line, and they cut in front. They broke the law. It’s a sin. It’s evil.
(By the way, speeding is against the law too, in case we’re feeling superior in any way. God’s standards are high!)
The left cannot and will not see border issues for what they are, but Christians should take no part in the ungodly confusion of thinking that wanting to curb this evil is itself evil.
No true Christian
One of the comments to the post came from a Canadian:
I don’t even live in the USA but I am deeply troubled also. I am praying for the so called “Christian” to wake up from their slumber and see what’s really going on. True followers of Christ would not support this evil.
This comment, actually, is a sin. Because it’s wrong to assume that fellow Christians whose viewpoints on deportation proceedings differ from yours are therefore not “true followers.”
Especially in an age when people tend to get their news from the same sources over and over, we should tread very lightly in making assumptions about someone’s salvation. That is in fact the judging we’re not supposed to do, because we don’t know people’s hearts — as opposed to the judging we can do, when people say or do specific sinful things.
Can we talk?
A reasonable discussion we might have here could center around specific ICE tactics. But we can’t have that discussion because one side refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of ICE in the first place (many also seem to be under the wholly ignorant impression it didn’t exist or take action before Trump). They also refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of a border, for the most part.
And they certainly refuse to acknowledge the fact that actively impeding lawful efforts to enforce law is in fact breaking the law and is therefore ... yes, a sin/evil.
Peacefully holding a protest sign is not wrong in any way. But let’s not pretend that’s what’s happening here, when “playbooks” are being disseminated online for physically engaging with these federal officers and “anti-ICE” groups openly call for violence. These things, as we have already seen, put the protesters — whether they are paid or just easily misled — in danger too.
Empathy for all
A topic for another time, perhaps, is the over-the-top emotion and angst over this American situation, which at this point involves the sad death of exactly one person who arguably put herself squarely in harm’s way. This response to the writer’s post is a good example:
It’s really hard for me to enjoy life like nothing is happening when so many others are hurting.
This Christian American woman is struggling to enjoy life. Because ICE. Not because thousands of Iranians are being slaughtered by the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, or any other people hurting, but because America is deporting people who shouldn’t have illegally crossed in.
Empathy for the hurting extends to all those who hurt, and plenty have been hurt by the assault on our borders over the past few years. With that in mind, another quote from the original post:
The way of Jesus is not conquest, nor is it victory over our so-called enemies. ... It means listening to the hurting, entering into the worlds of those who differ from us, and loving people we disagree with.
I could not agree more. We Christians, who believe any government’s God-ordained job is to protect its own citizens and therefore support deportation of people who “skipped the line” to get in (especially violent people), would appreciate having a civil conversation about this topic.
That — as opposed to indirectly or directly calling us nonbelievers — would be the loving thing to do.
This article was adapted from an essay originally published on Diane Schrader's Substack, She Speaks Truth.
Charlie Kirk: A good and faithful servant
When Charlie Kirk was asked in an interview how he would want to be remembered, he answered without hesitation.
“I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith in my life,” he said.
In honor of Charlie’s wish, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says, “I think he will be,” before reading Matthew 25:23: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness.”
“I think God is well pleased with Charlie Kirk and what he accomplished in his 31 years of life,” he says.
Kirk accomplished more in his 31 years than most people do in a lifetime — including becoming a major part of America’s strong faith-based conservative base.
“I really don’t like political partisanship, but there is a difference between the two political dynamics, the left and the right. And the difference is at their base, and I’m talking about the hardcore base of the conservative movement. It’s all based on biblical principles,” Whitlock explains.
“Charlie Kirk was a part of that base, that evangelical part of the conservative movement that really is trying to inflict, impose, influence government policies through a biblical lens,” he continues.
However, this is what angered leftists and the mainstream media the most, who labeled Kirk as polarizing.
“For the left, the most passionate people are the most secular people. … They stand shoulder to shoulder with the transgender crowd, the Alphabet Mafia, the pro-abortion crowd … and it’s because their worldview isn’t really biblical,” Whitlock says.
Rather, their worldview is “racial.”
And Charlie aimed to help the leftist youth see the world for more than the color of someone’s skin or a rainbow of genders.
“And that’s why I say hats off to Charlie Kirk. That in some ways, today is a celebration of a great young man, of someone that at an early age figured out how to match his talents with an activity and a passion and a life’s work that glorified and honored God,” Whitlock says.
“He recognized that this world has become so political, and that politics are driving so much of our worldview, that if he doesn’t inject Christianity and a biblical worldview into politics, we’re going to lose more and more people, and this world is going to become more and more worldly and secular, more and more hostile to God,” he continues.
“And Satan realized this man had to be stopped, because he was having too much impact on this world,” he says. “He was converting and opening the eyes of too many young people, and he had to be stopped.”
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BlazeTV's Steve Deace takes aim at 'Rainbow Jihad' with best-selling Christian children's book
BlazeTV host Steve Deace explored the spiritual nature of the divisions that threaten to tear America apart in his 2016 novel "A Nefarious Plot," which was adapted into the well-received film "Nefarious."
Like C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," Deace's satirical book provided penetrating insights into the nature of evil as well as into how the demonic might seek to pervert language, empathy, notions of justice and tolerance, media, the education system, and politics.
Deace has a new biting book out on the same theme but with a narrowed focus, namely the appropriation of the rainbow by non-straight activists and related distortions regarding marriage and the family.
Numerous American public school libraries across the country are replete with non-straight propaganda — books targeting children that champion deviant lifestyles, sexual promiscuity, and transvestitism and altogether reject traditional understandings of sex, marriage, and virtue.
To a passerby or an uncritical eye, Deace's new book, "Richie Meets the Rainbow: A Heartwarming Tale of Childhood Enlightenment," might look like more of the same. After all, the cover features an image of a cartoonish child pointing gleefully at a rainbow — a symbol now associated with degeneracy despite having signified for millennia God's covenant with man.
In fact, Deace told Blaze News that several of his own listeners "didn't realize it was a troll and were instantly offended that I had 'sold out' to what I call the Rainbow Jihad."
The book is instead something of a Trojan horse.
"What I call the Rainbow Jihad has noticeably left out the origin story of its own scam," Deace told Blaze News, "which is why I want to use this book to fill that void. Why wouldn't they want people to know where their ideology truly comes from? All the potential answers to that question are bad."
Deace recently told BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on "Stu Does America" that the book centers on a young boy named Richie who is confronted at school with a blue-haired, nose-ringed, "rainbow-fisted teacher" keen to fill his head with lies.
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Fortunately for Richie, he "has a secret weapon," said Deace. "He's got a dad."
"Instead of saying, 'Shut up, son, I'm watching the game,' Dad says, 'You know what? I can pause the game, son, and here at dinner, let's have a discussion about this,'" said Deace. "And he puts little Richie on his lap, and he grabs this best-selling book — maybe you've heard about it before; it's the greatest best-seller of all time, the Bible — and he walks Richie through the true story of the rainbow."
"He wants his son to know that 'unrepentant savages' have co-opted this with the intent of brainwashing him and future generations," said Deace. "And he's going to do something that also is not very prevalent in today's culture: His dad's going to get active and going to be a constant force at the school board meeting to make sure ... that the voiceless have a voice in him and set the example."
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The book, although written and marketed as a children's book, serves as a tool for parents to better understand the nature of leftist indoctrination, particularly within the school system, just as "A Nefarious Plot" serves as a tool for understanding the demonic infestation at the greater societal level.
Deace emphasized to Blaze News that when he put pen to paper, the intended reader was "the men."
'I didn't do it for the money, but to send a message.'
"It is time to both make dads the hero of the story again — because they really are the antidote to much of what threatens us culturally," said the BlazeTV host, "but also to inspire the men to stop being passive and get engaged because they are the solution."
Deace told Blaze News, "This book has been planned for 10 months to strike right at the heart of Pride Month on purpose."
Unsurprisingly, Deace had issues getting this particular title published despite his previous successes. Even getting it made proved difficult.
"We had to go all the way to Hungary to find an illustrator able [and] willing to do this for us to get it out there," said the BlazeTV host. "We had Amazon jack with us during our rollout, and I think we all know why."
"I only make a few bucks per book, so I'm not going to get rich off of this. I didn't do it for the money, but to send a message. And that message is this: The time for this demonic trash is at an end," added Deace.
At the time of writing, the book was ranked #1 Best-Seller in the Children's Christian Emotions & Feelings Fiction category on Amazon and ranked among the top 10 best-sellers in the Children's Christian Fiction category on the platform.
As the book climbed the new release charts on Amazon, Deace noted, "We are getting closer to being a certified LGBTQFU best-seller deep in the heart of pride month."
When asked if Richie will be making additional appearances, Deace told Blaze News that pending the success of this title, he could "foresee a future where Richie Meets Reparations, Richie Meets the Resurrection, Richie Meets the Real St. Nicholas, etc. Just spitballing here. But that's up to the audience."
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Respect before love: Why a loving marriage must begin with a woman’s respect
When Christian speaker and writer Audrey Broggi first met her husband, her gut instinct was not that he was the one but that she had a deep respect and admiration for his walk with the Lord.
“I respected him before I loved him. And so then, when you see in Ephesians, when Paul gives that whole list about what husbands are supposed to do for their wives, and then very succinctly right at the end he says, ‘And you wives see to it that you respect your husbands,’” Broggi tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”
“How do you foster the respect that we’re commanded to have when it doesn’t come naturally like a feeling for some women?” Stuckey asks.
“I’ll speak to you when you’re single, because that’s an area that you really do need to commit to the Lord. You need to know God not only calls me to submit to this man, but he calls me to respect him,” Broggi explains. “If it’s a struggle for a young woman, when she’s single and she’s dating someone to have respect for him, it’s not going to go away when she gets married.”
“Sanctification is a process, so we all grow in those areas. But at the same time, if you really don’t respect them right now, you need to find out why, and then take that to the Lord,” she continues, adding, “You either cry now, or you cry later.”
However, when you are married, Broggi’s advice is different.
“Now, for a married woman, it’s a command of the Lord to respect your husband,” Broggi says. “Sometimes, if women are struggling with that, I always encourage women to list out some things that you do respect about him.”
“It’s not like you don’t respect anything about him, something drew you to him, something you admired about him. Make a list of those things and then camp on those,” she continues. “Then, you tell him the things you respect about him. You actually talk to him, say, ‘I really love it when you do this.’”
“There’s so many things that we crave and we want from our husbands. They want respect from us,” she adds.
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Speaking tongues or nonsense? Rebutting bad TikTok theology
Speaking in tongues is a spiritual act and a gift that is imparted upon believers by the Holy Spirit — and videos of believers speaking in tongues are making the rounds on TikTok.
However, after seeing one video of a young woman recording herself praying in tongues, Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” isn’t convinced that sharing this gift publicly, and online, is the biblical move.
“I think how this is being done on social media is not biblical at all and is actually very dangerous spiritually for those that are viewing it,” Stuckey explains. “This is just not powered by the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is always going to be in agreement with God’s word.”
“Father, Son, Holy Spirit. All equal persons in the Trinity. They never contradict each other, they never disagree, the entirety of the Bible is God’s infallible, inherent word,” she continues, noting that public prayer for the sake of attention on social media does contradict God’s word.
Not only does Stuckey believe it’s not biblical, but she isn’t sure she buys it as real.
“My own personal observation is that that doesn’t actually sound like a language. That sounds like gibberish said in a rhythmic manner,” Stuckey says. “While I don’t know the intentions of her heart, it does seem to me that this is a performance that is posted on Instagram in order to maybe get likes, or maybe it is for attention, maybe it’s not for those things.”
“Maybe she believes that she is actually showing other people how to pray, or encouraging other people, and yet what she is doing just doesn’t correspond with the biblical directives that we are given,” she continues.
“We should all be able to watch a video like this and agree that filming yourself and posting it for the world to see doesn’t match what Jesus says in Matthew 6:5-6,” she adds.
Matthew 6:5-6 reads: “When you pray you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
“It seems to me that the point, if we look at the context of what Jesus is saying, and to whom he’s speaking,” Stuckey says, “his point is that prayer should not be a performance for others. It isn’t something that we do to prove ourselves, to prove ourselves holy, or to get likes, or to get affirmation.”
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Trump’s political revival is nothing less than a miracle in the making
On the morning of Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration, he and his wife, Melania, stopped by the White House. Awaiting their arrival were the current residents, Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. As Trump stepped out of the limousine, Biden greeted him with, “Welcome home,” before Melania could get out of the car. In what seemed like a rare lucid moment for Biden, it appeared that he was expressing the idea that he had been house-sitting — or some might say “squatting” — in the White House for the past four years.
Many Americans were, and still are, deeply upset over the outlandish and unlawful actions surrounding the 2020 election. These actions were designed to prevent Trump from staying in power for a second term. The evidence of the election being rigged and stolen seemed overwhelmingly obvious to many, not just the tens of thousands who marched to “Stop the Steal” on January 6, 2021.
The past 16 years are behind us, and what Trump envisions as America's golden age lies ahead. But the clock is ticking.
Several senators and representatives inside the Capitol that day, including Ted Cruz (R-Texas), were pushing to delay certifying the 2020 presidential election results until tangible evidence of election tampering could be thoroughly examined. The drama that unfolded outside the Capitol and later moved inside appears to have been orchestrated to distract the public from the alleged steal. To this day, the evidence of that tampering has never undergone any official in-depth investigation.
Even though he no longer held office, Donald Trump spent the four years after the 2020 election enduring relentless attacks, led by Democrats and abetted by the deep state, the far left, and weak-kneed Republicans. Yet, Trump stood firm, both literally and figuratively. Many observers believe that when he rose from the platform in Butler, Pennsylvania, after a would-be assassin’s bullet missed his head by a fraction of an inch, and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” — that moment marked his return to the political stage and sealed his comeback to the White House.
Trump’s enemies made him a living legend. And at that moment, he became unbeatable, and the election was simply “too big to rig.”
God did not just spare Trump's life by providing a clear-cut miracle; he also revealed how he works throughout history through individual lives. At least two scriptures immediately come to mind:
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28 NIV)
Also:
And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14 NIV)
In his inauguration address, President Trump acknowledged God’s hand in sparing his life to “make America great again.” But why did God wait so long? Couldn’t Trump have brought greatness back to the country by completing two consecutive terms in the White House?
Hindsight is always 20/20. However, in 2020, the powers that be hampered Trump’s first term and obstructed his plans for the country’s success. Trump likely would have limped into his second term as a lame-duck president, unable to accomplish his noble goals.
In the four years that followed, Joe Biden’s — and more likely, his handlers’ — incompetence became painfully apparent. His administration bungled national and international crises one after another. To make matters worse, his administration filled key roles with questionable choices — such as installing a man in a dress as assistant secretary of the Health and Human Services Department and another man more interested in paternity leave than managing the supply chain crisis. It took 48 seemingly interminable months for most Americans to begin awakening from this insidious woke madness.
But awaken we did. When the sleeping giant rubbed the sand from its eyes, it was “mad as hell and not going to take this anymore” — to echo newscaster Howard Beale from the prescient 1976 film “Network.”
Some might argue that Trump is now rapidly reversing the catastrophe of the past four years. But when you break it down, the Biden administration was really just a continuation of the Obama years.
When Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in 2008 to become the Democratic nominee for president, America may have been spared a worse fate than what we face today.
Consider this: What if Clinton had been the nominee in 2008 and gone on to win the presidency? Most likely, she would have served two terms, and the country would have been primed for an even more seasoned Barack Obama to “make history again” by becoming America’s first black president.
Then, Obama would have served two terms, bringing us to the 2024 election. After a full 16-year reign, all the madness and behind-the-scenes control of our elections would have ensured that no Republican — no matter how formidable — could have taken down the deep-state establishment.
But after Obama’s eight years, voters seemed to realize that electing the first female president wasn’t as glamorous or earth-shattering as they had imagined. America was ready for a commonsense leader again, not a wishy-washy figurehead.
So here we are. The past 16 years are behind us, and what Trump envisions as America's golden age lies ahead. But the clock is ticking. Regardless of the challenges, rest assured that everything will work out “for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose.”
Jesus Christ was ‘in the middle’: The WORST biblical interpretation of all time
Bad biblical takes are common — especially on social media platform X — but Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes one recent interpretation of the word of God may take the cake for the worst of them.
The interpretation comes from American evangelical pastor and author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” Rick Warren, who seems to be under the impression that Jesus Christ was a fence-sitter.
“John 19:18, ‘They crucified Jesus with two others — one on each side and Jesus in the middle.’ The guys on both sides were thieves. If you’re looking for the #realJesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, you’ll find him in the middle, not on either side,” Warren wrote in a post on X.
“Now, brothers and sisters in Christ, it took me a good second to understand what brother Warren is saying here,” Stuckey says. “Certainly, a pastor, who has been a pastor for so many years, is not saying because Jesus was physically in the center of Golgotha, that he had two people being crucified to his side, that he is also the center of Republican and Democrats.”
“He’s not saying that he’s politically moderate because the cross was in the middle of the three crosses when he was crucified,” she continues, adding, “but it does seem like that is what he is saying.”
Stuckey responded to Warren on X through a quote tweet, writing, “This is possibly the worst biblical interpretation I’ve ever seen, and that’s really saying something. Jesus is not ‘in the middle’ on the murder of children, gender deception, the definition of marriage, or anything else, for that matter. In fact, I seem to remember Him having a particular disdain for the lukewarm.”
“It’s very clear on what God thinks about the sanctity of life, the value of image bearers, the definition of marriage, the definition of gender. It’s not confusing, it’s only confusing if you want it to be for your political purposes,” she adds.
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