Christians like this stand in pretty stark contrast to the ones tithing to pay the hangar fees on their senior pastor's private jet. I knew a fair number of people on the spectrum of loving-kindness Christians as a kid. People who gave up promising careers in the west to help the poor. When I see the likes of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell claiming to speak for Christians it frosts my nads no end. They are all about hellfire and damnation (and money). They are the whited sepulchres and clanging gongs Jesus talked about.
I also know a large number of NALT Christians, which I think was coined as a more generic term than that website professes, and might have been coined by Dan Savage IIRC?
I'll bet these people aren't the pro-queer kind, though maybe I'm wrong. The world needs more Mennonites, maybe. 2 really rings true for me too.
I think perhaps I've mentioned my acquaintance from grad school who dropped out to become a Pentecostal minister. His wife was a pharmacist who delighted in refusing to fill birth control prescriptions, and they both hated the gays pretty hard. He moved to Benghazi to bring Jesus to the people as a high school chemistry teacher (well, to "help rebuild schools and education in the Middle East"). No joke. He was shot and killed while jogging. I'm an asshole, but I think his untimely death made the world a better place. Maybe these poeple are lovely, but my limited experience with this dude makes me think they are wingnuts bent on bringing Jesus to the heathens.
Let me be the first to blame Hillary.
5: holy shit. I'm sure your grad school was in some godforsaken pit of the earth, though.
7: The guy was from outside Detroit originally. Wife was Iraqi Christian. Yankee nutjobs. He gave sermons about our shared advisor! (Another fellow grad student's church had him as a guest pastor.) How the advisor worshipped at the altar of science but would be laid low before the Wrath of God.
He's also the one I turned in twice for plagiarism.
Detroit has the largest population of Arab people outside the middle east, or so UofM students liked to say in the late 90s. Also there are a ton of Chaldeans. In the late 90s it was very common for white UofM students to have a lot of bad things to say about Chaldean kids from their high schools.
He's also the one I turned in twice for plagiarism.
Would that have had anything to do with him dropping out?