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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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    It’s almost as if the entire thing is full of contradictions and you can find verses to justify nearly anything.

    First that came to my mind is the famous Matthew 7:

    “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

    3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    I was going to list a couple more verses that tell you not to judge others, but there’s literally too many so here:

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

    Here’s like 40+ examples for you.

    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      I mean you’re the one calling out someone else and saying the Bible is very explicit about not judging, not me. I shared it says the exact opposite when it comes to dealing with others who claim to be believers, which is true. Now you’re saying it’s full of contradictions… that’s fine too, but that’s certainly not what you first said about this particular subject.

      You seem mad that I pointed out what you first said was a common misconception often said by those that haven’t actually read the book. Still true.