"Det totala förfallet i svensk kristenhet"

 

Men snälla...

Runar Sögaard kritiserar Carola och Andreas Wijk

Bloody hypocrisy

 

So after killing children in need of blood transfusion for generations, God´s all-knowing organization simply changes its policy as if nothing?! 

Syskonskap med Judas

 

Vårt syskon Judas

Hmmm...

"Judas är inte längre förrädare och bröder blir syskon"

En dålig stilist?

 

Det här låter i och för sig intressant. Så vi vet egentligen inte vad som faktiskt står i Bibeln? Eller rättare sagt: vad som faktiskt avses.

Fast lite pikant ändå att den nya översättningen implicit ogiltigförklarar hela den protestantiska reformationen. Eller åtminstone centrala delar av dess särpräglade teologi.

Också lite kul att "The New Perspective on Paul" (NPP) visar sig vara att hedningarnas apostel var...en dålig stilist. Det kanske är oundvikligt när ordet blir kött? 

Så bra är den nya översättningen av Bibeln

Angels and demons

 

An original take on American evangelicalism, arguing that it´s actually a form of populist mysticism. Note the idea that evangelicalism may channel both Christ and the Demiurge ("Satan"). So can most other religions, I think! Not sure who the content-creator is. Some kind of folkish mystic?

Protesting too much?

 

Some Protestants don´t want to be called Protestants. And some other Protestants don´t want still other Protestants to call themselves Protestants. Redeemed Zoomer (a Presbyterian) belongs to the latter camp. Jokes aside, here RZ criticizes American radical evangelicalism from a more Mainline /moderate Protestant perspective.  

The adult in the room

 

The only mature person on the web? The title of this video *isn´t* click bait. I´m talking about his attitude more than his opinions, although he obviously has a point about the anti-Semitic jokes (which I wasn´t aware of)...

Existentiell hälsa eller mest bara rättsröta?

 

Ganska anmärkningsvärda uppgifter, detta. Om jag förstått saken rätt har den kristna högern i USA approprierat begreppet "existentiell hälsa" och försöker bevisa att volontärarbete är en central del av detta för att slå mot välfärdsstaten (eller välfärdssystemen - det finns ingen utbyggd välfärdsstat i USA). I Sverige verkar det hela däremot ha blivit ett alibi för Ulf Kristerssons mer särpräglade aktiviteter, som kritiker anser luktar korruption lång väg...

Myndigheten vill inte publicera rapport om existentiell hälsa 

"Skattepengar till hobbyprojekt för statsministerns fru"

Challenge / counter-challenge

 

Should atheists say a daily prayer? Two approaches...

Working 9 to 5

 

Credit: Artofit

Dolly Parton recently passed away. Or passed on? She was apparently an outspoken Christian, but also something of a "liberal", since she accepted the gay community and wondered if reincarnation could be true. So many fundamentalists on YouTube claim - or heavily imply - that Dolly Parton is in hell now?!

Geezus. I don´t mean the carpenter. And oh, she was pro-union, too! 

Alla vägar bär till Romarbrevet

 

Hittade ett YouTube-klipp med titeln "Alla vägar bär till Romarbrevet". Ja, det var protestantiskt. Featuring Stefan Gustavsson. Okej, titeln var faktiskt ganska fyndig...

Vindicatory

 

The distinction between "public" and "private" in this video about revelation is just a sleight of hand trick. Weren´t most revelations given to Paul and John (at Patmos) "private"? Wasn´t Fatima "public"? But RZ (the content-creator) isn´t a Catholic. The ministry of Jesus was a "public revelation", but why didn´t the resurrected Christ show himself to his enemies or to the indifferent? In a certain sense, his resurrection was therefore also "private". Und so weiter. 

He´s right about the NDEs, though. 

Koreshanity

 

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So there *is* a connection between David Koresh and Cyrus Reed Teed? I always kind of wondered about that one... 

Dude!

Teal is blue

 

"Paranoid Protestants" is a three-hour long video about the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) from a skeptical (probably atheist) perspective. It´s interesting, to be sure, and it´s obvious that the narrator (who sometimes doubles as himself!) has done some heavy reading on the history and theology of this particular denomination. I actually learned some new stuff about both Adventists and others from this documentary.

However, there are also some rather obvious problems with this production. For instance, the Branch Davidians headed by David Koresh are prominently featured. But what on earth is the *real* connection between the cult at Waco and the SDA Church? Not that much, really. It´s like making a docu about atheism and throw in Jim Jones and the People´s Temple (who were "Marxists" and sometimes sounded like atheists). 

The content-creator also believes that apocalyptic Protestantism (including the SDA) is the main cause of so many Americans believing in conspiracy theories. But a more likely explanation is that both apocalypticism and conspiracism have a common cause independent of both, or that they are parallell phenomena influencing each other. 

With that, have at it!

Freak show

 

There is some truth to this, tbh. 

Mannen i nattsärken

 

Jag betvivlar inte att denna historia är "sann" på något sätt, men den är ju inte hela sanningen. Från en sajt som promoterar "Boken om hopp: NT", omnämnd i förra inlägget. 

Heléns resa i nyandlighet var nära att kosta henne livet

Boken om hopp

 

Något som heter Bible for the Nations har skickat ut gratisex av Nya Testamentet till...jag vet inte...alla hushåll i Sverige? Fick den i brevlådan för några dagar sedan. Den heter "Boken om hopp: NT". Tydligen baserad på Svenska Folkbibeln. Som jag haft länge. Men tack ändå...antar jag. 

The Mecca-Medina conflict

 

Styx is experiencing some turbulence right now, but the latest rumor takes the prize. Apparently, some people somewhere claim that he is a Muslim or is becoming one. Eh? The reason seems to be that he wants to end Trump´s war with Iran. So presumably Styx is now a Twelver Shia Muslim, then. As opposed to a Christian Protestant Nationalist? Or what? 

He seems to be an occultic libertarian. As he has been for the past two decades or so. 

And btw, I´m aware of the "Mecca-Medina conflict" and have read the Tibetan Book of the Dead. There!

True heterodoxy

 

Redeemed Zoomer strikes again. This is a sequel to his two previous videos on strange and (perhaps) wonderful Christian denominations. A *bit* boring, though! I expected more colorful cults. I mean, what about the 57 versions of Mormonism, bruh? 

Unmute, dude

 

Why are we still having this conversation in 2026?