Even though you and I might disagree on points of doctrine, we are both followers of The Way. So what does it mean that every time I hear “Christian”, I think “liar”. You are still in the academy, what do your students think of all this?
When Liars For Jesus get started, they cannot stop. Well, perhaps they could, if they dared travel the Damascus Road, but that is unlikely to happen, although there is always hope for repentance.
As far as made up things - how about Federer's claim that Jefferson wrote A Prayer For The Nation, and even gave a source for this claim, in a book titled (IIRC - it's been some years - decades?) The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson, with chapter and page numbers? I was fortunate enough at the time to find a copy of that book with the copyright date the same as Federer's claim, and found that on those pages was Jefferson's second Inaugural speech where he pointed out the necessity of teaching the Indians animal husbandry and agriculture because we had taken so much of their traditional hunting grounds. Also, Jefferson was dead by the time that prayer was written for inclusion in The Book of Common Prayer for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA.
The Liars For Jesus know that people who believe what they say will never look for the source, or check their facts, and if they do, Liars will come up with a tap dance around it, or in these days of 47's power over "conservatives," call it "fake news." So, I'm sure Grant et al., feel no qualms about making things up as they go along.
Even though you and I might disagree on points of doctrine, we are both followers of The Way. So what does it mean that every time I hear “Christian”, I think “liar”. You are still in the academy, what do your students think of all this?
Students really struggle with this but for the most part they have little patience with it.
Are they leaving white, evangelical churches? Or does that come a little further down the road?
A few seem to be reconsidering but most are not as far as I can tell.
Especially if their parents are paying their tuition 😃
When Liars For Jesus get started, they cannot stop. Well, perhaps they could, if they dared travel the Damascus Road, but that is unlikely to happen, although there is always hope for repentance.
As far as made up things - how about Federer's claim that Jefferson wrote A Prayer For The Nation, and even gave a source for this claim, in a book titled (IIRC - it's been some years - decades?) The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson, with chapter and page numbers? I was fortunate enough at the time to find a copy of that book with the copyright date the same as Federer's claim, and found that on those pages was Jefferson's second Inaugural speech where he pointed out the necessity of teaching the Indians animal husbandry and agriculture because we had taken so much of their traditional hunting grounds. Also, Jefferson was dead by the time that prayer was written for inclusion in The Book of Common Prayer for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA.
The Liars For Jesus know that people who believe what they say will never look for the source, or check their facts, and if they do, Liars will come up with a tap dance around it, or in these days of 47's power over "conservatives," call it "fake news." So, I'm sure Grant et al., feel no qualms about making things up as they go along.
That's because they were smart, the Bible was in the church where it belonged.