Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Every time young Americans are preached to, their eyes roll back in their head. They have heard it all before, and they simply aren't interested in hearing it again. They don't care if you have found Jesus, they don't care if you think they are evil, and they aren't interested Christian morality. But why?It's simple. Young Americans by and large believe Christianity has lost Jesus, Christianty does more evil than good, and Christianity has become immoral. In the United States, Christianity has been completely taken over by conservative politics, and the faith that underpins it is now nearly unrecognizable. Hostile to anyone who does not wholeheartedly agree with their politics, Christians now chastise their neighbors rather than serve them; disparage the poor rather than help them; criminalize the refugee rather than welcome them; and legislate their faith on others rather than love them.Young Americans still hold religious values at similar levels as past generations; but those values are no longer found in churches, so they are leaving in record numbers. The Bible they read does not match the preaching they hear from religious, cultural, and political leaders who so vocally claim to follow Jesus.Jesus Wept helps readers see the world from the point of view of these young Americans, and understand why they think Christianity has lost its values, and become a corrupt faith.
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Every time young Americans are preached at, their eyes roll back in their head.They have heard it all before. They don't care if you have found Jesus, they don't care if you think they are evil, and they aren't concerned with Christian morality. But why?In the United States Christianity experienced a worldly unification with conservative politics, and the faith that once underpinned Christianity transformed into a cultural identity. Hostile to anyone who does not wholeheartedly agree with their politics, Christians now chastise their neighbors rather than serve them; disparage the poor rather than help them; criminalize the refugee rather than welcome them; and legislate their faith on others rather than love them.Young Americans by and large believe Christianity has lost Jesus. They see this post-Christ Christianity disregarding Jesus' teachings and feel Christianity now does more harm than good.Research shows Young Americans still hold religious values but no longer see those values reflected in their churches. Jesus Wept helps readers see the world from the point of view of these young Americans, and understand why, as Christianity loses its values, it will continue to lose its members.
Synopsis
Christianity in America is slipping away. Christians claim this is the result of an intentional "attack" on Christianity.
Young Americans have a different message: "It's not us, it's you."
While their pastors and parents worry about Christianity's numerical decline, young Americans are focused only on its moral decline.
Modern Christianity has been so heavily corrupted by greed and politics that Jesus wouldn't recognize it if he were here today. The Biblical teachings of truth, love, faith, compassion, and personal responsibility have all but disappeared. These once Christian virtues have been replaced by a culture of grievance that looks at the rest of the world with contempt. Closed off from all criticism and scientific evidence, the only growth in Christianity today is in its many scandals.
Jesus Wept shows the end result of the Christian moral decline. Even when someone is willing to accept the Christian position that the Bible is true, modern American Christians still get it all wrong. Their interpretation of the Bible relies on tradition, rather than Biblical scholarship. The distortion of these traditions by political interests has led to the church that exists today: closed minded, ethnocentric, bigoted, abusive, hypocritical, and traumatic.