Marginal Christianity

On November 1933, on the 450 th  anniversary of Martin Luther’s birth, 20,000 German Christians held a mass rally celebrating four distinctive beliefs. I find parallels to what is happening under Donald Trump (in bolded italics) : ·          Adolf Hitler is the completion of the Protestant Reformation  started by Martin Luther ·          Donald Trump is the Protector of the Christian Faith in America ·          Baptized Jews are to be dismissed from the Church ·          Immigrants are not welcome in our country or churches (“Send them back where they came from” ·          The Old Testament is to be excluded from Sacred Scriptures ·          Neither the Old or New Testaments “trump” America’s needs or in...

http://brianzahnd.com/2014/07/hitler-invaded-house/?utm_content=buffer7c5bb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#more-3841 What If Hitler Invaded Your House? Brian Zahnd Lately I’ve been giving a lot of interviews on my new book A Farewell To Mars . It’s a semi-autobiographical confession of how I moved from being an enthusiastic supporter of war American style to proclaiming the peaceable kingdom of Christ. Since I’ve marched among the ranks of sincere war-endorsers for most of my life, I’m sympathetic with well-meaning Christians who believe in the way of Mars. I try to tell the story of my conversion honestly and gracefully. I level criticism, not at soldiers, but at myself. My aim is to take the reader on a journey where Jesus and war are examined in the light of an unencumbered reading of Scripture. But in a twelve minute radio interview there is little time for narrative and nuance. Instead, the interviewer usually lea...