I have been seeing alot of grumbling about Christians and complaining that Christian moral activism is returning.
Name a single part of social justice/woke culture that did not result from what Christians were warning yall about.
I guess some lessons will never be learned though. Society has just gone too far down the path of liberalism 🤷♂️
So easy I'll name two. Valuing turning the other cheek over defending themselves effectively. And pretending all men (or women) were created equal.
Christianity has had plenty of benefits, but the organized church has obviously fumbled the ball terribly to the point where too many modern Christians are even praising their kids being mutilated and abused in front of them.
It is apparently news to Americans that there is no book of the Bible called 'the Declaration of Independence'.
Hold up, are you trying to say the literal doctrinal interpretation of created in god's image wasn't already a thing before the declaration of independence paraphrased it?
The ideas that 'all men are created equal' and that all are created in God's image do not sound like the same idea to me, but I'm open to correction.
And the downvote is not mine.
Oh don't worry about the down vote, I figured OP has just tagged everyone who actually tried to call him on his bluff.
One idea is not exactly a foregone conclusion of the other, but it is one of the conclusions that you can reach. One of the arguments goes: If all men are made in God's image, and God is infinitely more important than any worldly matter, then all men are essentially equal in the face of the glory of God.
"All men are created equal" is a sentiment that had been simmering up and down in theologians for centuries before America was even discovered. Pope Gregory I (p533, at the bottom) put it in one of his moral treatises. John Ball (wiki IK, but it'll do as a summary) preached it as he rabble roused a peasant revolt. There are more, even back then theology was as trend chasing and Zeitgeisty as politics, so it had ebbs and flows of popularity, but notably the idea was never widely persecuted against enough to ever disappear.
It's a simplification that I think was aimed upward and often used cynically or sincerely to imply that "these men are not fit to lead you, God is" without explicitly crossing into treason. But had the unintended effect of entrenching people against the very idea that some people are more beneficial/detrimental to your community than others when looking at their peers or downwards.