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Why Is It So Difficult? We Know Why. [1]
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Date: 2025-09-16
I know why it's difficult. We know why it’s difficult.
It's because too many conservative Christians aren’t aware that the Holy Bible is progressive — it’s meant to be understood in progression from front to back.
The bible is like time in real life - it goes forward and in order from the first page in the beginning of the Old Testament to the last page of the New Testament - people learned from past mistakes and stopped doing it. Just like real life. Jesus told them to stop stoning people to death and leave judgment up to God - "We are all sinners / He who is without sin may cast the first stone".
Yet conservatives tend to go back to the Old Testament when Jesus told them they're not supposed to do that. Conservative Christians like Charlie Kirk think we're still supposed to be stoning people to death because they went backwards in time from the New to the Old Testament.
This is the heart of progressivism, why it is ‘progressive’. It’s because the Christians among us have a progressive view of the Bible — known as the ‘Progressive View’ of the Bible.
Reading the bible without a progressive vision results in accumulating error of cognitive dissonance.
If any conservative disagrees with you, say “Let's start stoning all the adulterers that we know of. No? Why - because it might be YOU or someone you love? Okay then. Jesus didn't say 'Cherry pick the Old Testament to stone whoever you want to hate!' Your own hate filled heart told you that.”
Progressivism is fundamental to morality and ethics — mistakes are made to be learned from so they aren’t made again. This is essential to progression and even scientifically in evolution. Going back in time against progress in an attempt to rewind it is anathema to this concept, goes against nature and is arguably evil. Thus based on that argument, whitewashing out historical records of mistakes made by humankind is the purest form of evil.
This is why the MAGA cult wears evil on their hats. Make America Great Again. They want to go against morality and nature.
Most of y’all already know this by heart. What I don’t understand is this: Why is this not a discussion on the national political stage? It is common sense and easy to digest, and a powerful argument to wield against conservative Christians.
Yet going through the comments under this image on social media, I’mnot seeing one person mention this.
This is epic marketing failure.
It is why we are struggling in the court of public opinion — because we are not striking at the black hate-filled heart of conservativism.
Everyone only talks about the symptoms of conservative Christianity, but not the disease.
If you’re a progressive, this is your best weapon against conservative Christianity.
It is our imperative to induce a national conversation about this.
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