I'd say the problem with Christianity in the west at least is they allowed their traditions and festivals to be mostly taken over by corporate interests.
And then those corporate interests got taken over by leftists so were given a backdoor to subvert the church, making the leaders ideologically indoctrinated and spreading a message of 'passive resistance' to the actual followers.
The Muslims are the more active 'we'll kill you' to disrespect while in places like Japan their population is mostly agnostic but the cultural traditions of Shintoism is so ingrained that even the agnostics follow the traditions and festivals from it.
It'll take Christians in the west to go full crusader bringing back Knight orders to reclaim the church from the leftists grip.
The problem with Christianity is it spent the past century/ies telling everyone they were Christians if they simply say some words and not actually live by the Bible.
Like for me a simple test for a church is where they stand on lgbt. By all means you can show love and compassion but being honest about what the Bible says is showing love. Churches who want to be popular just make me sad
It'll take Christians in the west to go full crusader bringing back Knight orders to reclaim the church from the leftists grip.
Which is why I see attempts at reforming the Mainline Protestant Church from within, such as Redeemed Zoomer's "Operation Reconquista", as highly optimistic at best and a fool's errand at worst.
Bless his heart, but any mark that off the top of my head his movement has made is extremely small in the grand scheme of things in terms of wresting the Church back from the left. (EDIT: Also not helped by his barring of anyone from his movement that is NOT part of a mainline church, such as those part of the SBC, or the PCA which for some ridiculous reason he holds contempt for)
RZ is part of the PCUSA, the mainline Presbyterian denomination, and probably the 3rd most woke after the UMC (Methodists) and Episcopal Church (but is not himself woke, hence the movement). He is by his own admission a hard-line Calvinist.
The reason I called his contempt for the PCA (the conservative offshoot of PCUSA) "ridiculous" is because he considers them cowards for leaving in the first place instead of staying and fighting. Knowing how leftist indoctrination works, this would have been at considerable long-term risk to anyone who chooses to stay, and considering RZ looks the other way on female pastors or otherwise minimizes the issue (knowing full well what scripture says, he considers it a 'secondary' issue), he is of no exception.
Ah i wasn't aware of him, my interest in church figures is limited to a biography I read of machen in high school.
Fully on board with dissing the PCUSA.
I know virtually nothing about that later split, but from my estimation, the OPC one happened at about the last possible straw of "fighting back" since they were teetering on kicking him out anyway.
I'd say the problem with Christianity in the west at least is they allowed their traditions and festivals to be mostly taken over by corporate interests.
And then those corporate interests got taken over by leftists so were given a backdoor to subvert the church, making the leaders ideologically indoctrinated and spreading a message of 'passive resistance' to the actual followers.
The Muslims are the more active 'we'll kill you' to disrespect while in places like Japan their population is mostly agnostic but the cultural traditions of Shintoism is so ingrained that even the agnostics follow the traditions and festivals from it.
It'll take Christians in the west to go full crusader bringing back Knight orders to reclaim the church from the leftists grip.
The problem with Christianity is it spent the past century/ies telling everyone they were Christians if they simply say some words and not actually live by the Bible.
And don’t forgot they have totally abandoned the teaching that following Christ will make you unpopular with the world
That's probably a big component.
So many at least the past fifty years are more concerned with being "nice" than having principals and enforcing them.
And also Christians being tricked by Jews into thinking that they have to let everyone else do anything to them or else they're bad people.
Like for me a simple test for a church is where they stand on lgbt. By all means you can show love and compassion but being honest about what the Bible says is showing love. Churches who want to be popular just make me sad
Which is why I see attempts at reforming the Mainline Protestant Church from within, such as Redeemed Zoomer's "Operation Reconquista", as highly optimistic at best and a fool's errand at worst.
Bless his heart, but any mark that off the top of my head his movement has made is extremely small in the grand scheme of things in terms of wresting the Church back from the left. (EDIT: Also not helped by his barring of anyone from his movement that is NOT part of a mainline church, such as those part of the SBC, or the PCA which for some ridiculous reason he holds contempt for)
Some people have a real hate boner for Calvin
Not quite in this case.
RZ is part of the PCUSA, the mainline Presbyterian denomination, and probably the 3rd most woke after the UMC (Methodists) and Episcopal Church (but is not himself woke, hence the movement). He is by his own admission a hard-line Calvinist.
The reason I called his contempt for the PCA (the conservative offshoot of PCUSA) "ridiculous" is because he considers them cowards for leaving in the first place instead of staying and fighting. Knowing how leftist indoctrination works, this would have been at considerable long-term risk to anyone who chooses to stay, and considering RZ looks the other way on female pastors or otherwise minimizes the issue (knowing full well what scripture says, he considers it a 'secondary' issue), he is of no exception.
Ah i wasn't aware of him, my interest in church figures is limited to a biography I read of machen in high school.
Fully on board with dissing the PCUSA.
I know virtually nothing about that later split, but from my estimation, the OPC one happened at about the last possible straw of "fighting back" since they were teetering on kicking him out anyway.
A shame what's become of westminster since.