• Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    As an Orthodox Christian, American Evangelicalism seems like a completely different religion. One American pastor explained the Beatitudes to his congregation, and after the sermon, he was told it was “woke.” But that’s directly from the Bible!

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      4 months ago

      Its not the same religion it was changed starting in the late 1920s by an efforts of National Association of Manufacturers and Rev James Fifield Jr As a response to RDR and the New Deal and Churches at the time adopting Socialist practices to help their communities.