Controlling the Christian Narrative

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The only problem "the Church" will have is it's own congregants' actions. Actual followers of Christ will do fine.

Churches have historically used new technologies as they go. Some churches apparently don't bother passing the offering plate because all giving is via electronic transaction.
 
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SchmedlytheGreat said:
It will be nothing compared to when the radical left attempts to declare the gospel to be hate speech and those who confess Christ to be domestic terrorists.


That's possible. However, these people are capable of picking the Gospel apart, talking it down at one point but also talking it up when that suits. We already see that coming from the same people.

For example, them lauding some part of the Gospel but simultaneously describing the Christians who uphold it in their daily lives as rubes, yokels, and of course, as hypocrites.
 
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For example, them lauding some part of the Gospel but simultaneously describing the Christians who uphold it in their daily lives as rubes, yokels, and of course, as hypocrites.
Christianity the institutions, have been putting down people and name calling for centuries. Even held mass BBQ's.
 
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Churches already have some censorship in their religion. Catholics censor Protestant ideas and Protestans censor Catholics. Both censor SDA or JW or LDS ideas and they censor them back. The only exception is when they are using the other religions's ideas to prove why they are heretics.
 
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Churches already have some censorship in their religion.
Yes but how many censor all concepts of an outside God or His Kingdom. Up until now it has been advantageous for the world governments including those within Christianity to operate behind those concepts but soon the new world government will insist all eyes focus on self, self being the god of this world.
 
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Agree. At least there you can pick out the anti- individuals rather than living under it's system. But don't be surprised if someday soon privacy will be forbidden and all must voice their opinions online under real names in order for the world to see who you are and reward or condemn you accordingly. It is running the beta version now.

Nice to see someone so aware of things.
I totally see that coming.
 
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They may try to charge pastors with hate speech for pro-life views or anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
Well we have seen thanks to the internet how fringe minorities have taken control with cyber influence that shouldn't exist in the real world but now does.
 
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Friendship with the world is enmity towards the LORD. Having the right enemies is a sign you are on track. You will be hated by all for My names sake Jesus told us and we have exited a short lived era that had a Christian world view and are now entering a time where a pre antichrist world view is ascending.
 
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B: Lot's of people believe in God.
S: About half the planet.
B: That's a lot.
S: But how many religions are there?
B: Umm. Three major montheistic ones.
S: Exactly. And how many sects in Islam.
B: Three? Maybe four.
S: And how many in Judaism.
B: Three.
S: Christianity?
B: Gee, I've lost count of the denominations.
S: And they all disagree with each other?
B: Good grief, yes.
C: And even those within each denomination? Do they all agree?
B: No. Quite often they disagree on major matters.
S: So...
B: Ah. I see what you've done.
S: And why are we having this conversation? You don't even believe that I exist.
B: Yeah. Wierd eh?
 
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Christianity the institutions, have been putting down people and name calling for centuries. Even held mass BBQ's.

Indeed. Christians haven't always been the tolerant, decent people that @Albion imagines. In Calvinist Geneva, they burned Michael Servetus at the stake for simply questioning one of their pet doctrines, and they would occasionally gather around to beat a gay man to death while he was lashed across a wheel, breaking every bone in his body. And in Protestant Germany around the same time, witchhunts were common and tens of thousands of women were killed in a mindless moral panic and hysteria about fear of the devils under every rock and tree.
 
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Indeed. Christians haven't always been the tolerant, decent people that @Albion imagines.
LOL. I haven't said anything like that, so I'd have to conclude that you are the one doing some heavy imagining here! ^_^
 
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