This article talks about the views of a very specific group within the American Christian movement, specifically, an alliance of conservative evangelical and Catholic Christians.  It’s a big group. But it is far from everyone who calls themselves a Christian.The evangelical movement is fraying. The views attributed to it here are those of an aging, largely male and largely white segment of evangelicals.  Younger people are increasingly open and affirming of people of color and the LGBTQIA  community.  The Catholic Church in America also doesn’t march in lockstep to the Vatican, and a small but growing group have left the Roman Church for one of several “independent” Catholic movements - traditional in worship, liberal in doctrine.The only thing that really all Christians agree on is that Jesus is one part of the Triune God.  After that it starts to get messy, and it has been that way since Peter’s sermon on Pentecost.The Framers knew that Europe had just gone through over 150 years of unrelenting war between factions of Christianity, and many of the victims escaped to the American colonies to avoid persecution. They wrote the First Amendment with this history in mind, to prevent the new American government from picking only one religious movement and making it the State Religion.The scary thing for this Christian is that it is looking like that intent is going out the window. Conservative religionists are winning the right to be the only game in the Supreme Court.

This article talks about the views of a very specific group within the American Christian movement, specifically, an alliance of conservative evangelical and Catholic Christians.  It’s a big group. But it is far from everyone who calls themselves a Christian.The evangelical movement is fraying. The views attributed to it here are those of an aging, largely male and largely white segment of evangelicals.  Younger people are increasingly open and affirming of people of color and the LGBTQIA  community.  The Catholic Church in America also doesn’t march in lockstep to the Vatican, and a small but growing group have left the Roman Church for one of several “independent” Catholic movements - traditional in worship, liberal in doctrine.The only thing that really all Christians agree on is that Jesus is one part of the Triune God.  After that it starts to get messy, and it has been that way since Peter’s sermon on Pentecost.The Framers knew that Europe had just gone through over 150 years of unrelenting war between factions of Christianity, and many of the victims escaped to the American colonies to avoid persecution. They wrote the First Amendment with this history in mind, to prevent the new American government from picking only one religious movement and making it the State Religion.The scary thing for this Christian is that it is looking like that intent is going out the window. Conservative religionists are winning the right to be the only game in the Supreme Court.

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