[Vision2020] ADV: Brave Evangelical Woman!

[Nicholas Gier]

1/28/2018 Huff Post

Excerpt:
Gaslighting is psychological manipulation that leads one to question one’s
own feelings and perceptions of reality. For more than two years now, I
have watched, shocked, as 81 percent of the religious leaders and peers of
my youth and early adulthood
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/evangelicals-election_n_5820d931e4b0e80b02cbc86e>
have
embraced a man and a political ideology contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
They have thrown out the foundational values of Christianity in exchange
for tax cuts, Supreme Court nominees and political power. Today, those
Christians are calling me
<https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/god-will-not-bless-america-texas-pastor-curses-nation-godless-democrats-win-midterms/>
a
heretic and a godless woman because now I reject their Republican rhetoric
and because my personal Christian values (that *they *drilled into me for
decades) more closely align with the Democratic Party’s platform.

-- 

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

--Immanuel Kant
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