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John Pavlovitz: Evangelicals, Your Refusal to Love Your Transgender Neighbors is a Sin
John Pavlovitz - Evangelicals, Your Refusal to Love Your Transgender Neighbors is a Sin
John Pavlovitz
Feb 09, 2025
Dear Evangelicals,
/snip/
I see how addled with fears and phobia your theology has left you.
It grieves me deeply to see you doing what you're doing, what you've been doing for so long, and what you've become as a result.
Your incessant attacks on Transgender human beings are the rotten fruit of a toxic faith that has needs an enemy to feel valid; a religion that cannot exist unless it has an imminent danger to wiped out—even if that danger is imaginary, even if the threat you rail against is fabricated.
I'm not sure how you ended up thinking that this was somehow your most noble calling or what good you believe you're accomplishing or exactly what your end game is, but I hope you hear me because I am telling you in respect, with compassion and love: you’re getting it wrong.
You're wasting daylight here.
You're squandering precious breath.
You're fighting a battle that you can't possibly win and weren't asked to wage to begin with.
God is not in this holy war with you no matter how much your pastor or politician or favorite news show host wants you to believe.
/snip
John Pavlovitz
Feb 09, 2025
Dear Evangelicals,
/snip/
I see how addled with fears and phobia your theology has left you.
It grieves me deeply to see you doing what you're doing, what you've been doing for so long, and what you've become as a result.
Your incessant attacks on Transgender human beings are the rotten fruit of a toxic faith that has needs an enemy to feel valid; a religion that cannot exist unless it has an imminent danger to wiped out—even if that danger is imaginary, even if the threat you rail against is fabricated.
I'm not sure how you ended up thinking that this was somehow your most noble calling or what good you believe you're accomplishing or exactly what your end game is, but I hope you hear me because I am telling you in respect, with compassion and love: you’re getting it wrong.
You're wasting daylight here.
You're squandering precious breath.
You're fighting a battle that you can't possibly win and weren't asked to wage to begin with.
God is not in this holy war with you no matter how much your pastor or politician or favorite news show host wants you to believe.
/snip