Over at Carlos Slim’s Blog, one of the tame Churchians is saying that white Christians are irrelevant and we must all be beige because progress and them evil evangelicals voted trump. We,Tony Campolo was a spiritual advisor to Clinton, and his mate Jim Wallis was one to Obama.

The amusing thing about their philosophical ineptitude is that they don’t realize they are making an overt case for Christian theocracy, the reality of which would of course horrify them because they have absolutely no intention of abiding by anything genuinely Christian at all; this is nothing more than shallow pandering to the worldly zeitgeist using a few inappropriately applied Bible verses as justification.

Moreover, it demonstrates that at least when it comes to Churchianity, race trumps religion in the hierarchy of identity politics. As usual, the Alt-Right perspective is the only one that makes any sense of this incoherent and degraded evangelicism.

Here is a useful metric for Christians: if the New York Times Carlos Slim’s blog is affording you space for your views and generally striking a positive tone about them, you are absolutely wrong and whatever you are pushing is antithetical to genuine Christianity. No one – no one – is ever going to be inspired to follow Jesus Christ as a result of your pandering to the approval of the global elite. It is literally anti-evangelist evangelicism and its new home is godless churchianism.

The anger in the comments is a signal itself. People are tired of falsehood and false sins. They know wrong from right. And they know that lawyers set up tests, to damn us.

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]

(John 8:3-11 ESV)

Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Thessalonians 1:4-12 ESV)

Firstly, adultery is wrong. Within the only functional way of running a society, which is to keep fathers involved and leading families, the men have to stay with their wives and the women need to be faithful. There is nothing righteous about sexual immorality.

But Jesus did not pick up a stone. He instead said the sinless should condemn, and got out of a trap: the Romans had banned such activity, reserving execution for their law. (Which is why Christ was crucified and not stoned).

He did tell her to sin no more.

So telling a sinner that they are innocent is not righteous or good. We are all sinners. We all need to confess our sins and seek to reform.

And in doing this we will be opposed. If we are not, then we are not salt and light.

Our enemies will face justice, and it will be terrible. So Tony, it is time to stop preaching politics and saying you have virtue, and to seek again Christ. You will gain the hatred of the politically correct. Put you may save your soul.

UPDATE

Ironically, this was put on Gab by a Mormon: a memed ikon of St Nicholas.