Sincere or self-serving, the disgraced comedian’s case shows how the church became a culture war frontier

The women whom Russell Brand raped and sexually assaulted have for weeks endured the ordeal of a heavily publicised trial. Throughout, Brand held online prayer meetings with followers. Does he feel Christian sympathy for those women?

Only Brand, in the deepest recesses of his conscience, can know.

The answer would be the best indicator of whether the disgraced comic, actor and born-again Christian has worn his newfound faith as a cloak in an effort to deflect and distract from the seriousness of the allegations against him. Or whether his conversion is a profound and sincere one – a spiritual crutch he may need in the coming years.

Whatever the truth, Brand’s case demonstrates how Christianity has become a frontier in the culture wars along which battle lines are now drawn on all kinds of ethical, political and even legal issues.

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  • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Prole said a couple comments above:

    Very unchristian of you to judge another person like that. You holy book is very explicit about what you just did.

    That statement couldn’t be farther from the truth and I provided citations. A Christian is in fact supposed to judge another believers behavior and call it out when it’s bad, and to separate from them when they are unrepentant. They are supposed to be kind in doing so but nonetheless supposed to call them out.

    There’s even more instruction and warnings to watch out for those that use Christ’s name to further their own evil while pretending to be righteous. Jesus was quite direct and harsh in his confrontation with such people.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Gotta love when Christians pretend there isn’t like 3000+ sects of their religion. They’re always the correct one somehow though.

      Your Bible is full of contradictions. But the overarching message of “humans don’t judge others, god does” is very very clear.

      https://www.openbible.info/topics/judging_other_christians

      There’s like 40+ verses for you but I already know it won’t be enough.

      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I mean you said…

        Christians are pretty explicitly taught to never have judgement about whether or not another Christian’s faith is genuine. That’s a big no no

        …not me 🙂

        Consider the subject full of contradictions or more nuanced than simply “don’t judge anyone” like you suggested. What you first said was very inaccurate and a common misconception regardless.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
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      3 days ago

      I’m saying it’s not either or (I think in programing language it’s called XOR). im not sure how I could have been more clear than “both.”