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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the immigrant to be unwelcome, the needy to be called "parasites," all while billionaires get richer, we've completely disregarded the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you want other human beings to be treated in a way that you’d refuse to be treated, then I’m not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs. You’ve already told me what they are by wanting other human beings to be treated in a way that you’d refuse to be treated.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you are overwhelmed by all the cruelty and tempted into hopelessness, you are a good person and on the right side of history. Those in power want nothing more than to steal your hope and drive you into apathy. Keeping your empathy and hope alive is an act of resistance.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Those who ban the press and start state run media are never the good guys in history.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is such a weak and fragile god who needs a political party, a president, a Supreme Court, and a nation to defend them and fight their battles for them. God does not need your defense. The poor, the hungry, the sick, the disabled, the children, the immigrant, and the powerless do.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is Christian extremism. If a radical Muslim military leader was doing this in another country, using the Quran to stoke commitment to a holy war among young recruits, the condemnation from American Christians would be swift and severe. The hypocrisy is astounding.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My newsletter tomorrow is called “Getting Furious About Compassion.” In it, I invite us to look at Jonah 3:10—4:11 and how it is a satirical rebuke of nationalistic and religious bigotry, both for the ancient world and ours today. Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile/posts

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I have spent the majority of my life in Evangelical Christian spaces. I have experienced a lot of church hurt. I now write to explore topics that often are at the intersection of politics and Christia...

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing Hamas has done justifies a genocide. Nothing justifies a genocide.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you are using God to justify supporting things that would make you cry out to God in agony for help if it was being done to you, you are not worshiping God. You are worshiping cruelty and calling it “God.”

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that tells us we should be more concerned about an immigrant being here illegally and misusing social services than we are about the ultra wealthy threatening our entire existence just to become wealthier.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Religious nationalism looks like seeing a person from another country with their nation's flag, holding their religion's scriptures, and a gun and calling them a terrorist, yet when you turn and see a person from your own religion and country doing the exact same thing, you call them a patriot.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our greatest enemy is the belief that this world is filled with enemies to be conquered rather than filled with neighbors to be loved.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is a broken Christianity that desperately looks for Jesus returning in the clouds but refuses to recognize him in the faces of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the bombed, the starving, the marginalized, and the oppressed.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My newsletter tomorrow is called “An Invitation to Grieve.” In it, we walk through processing our individual grief over the current religious and political realities today and seek encouragement and solidarity together. Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile?

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins. When you worship power, harsh treatment towards those you see as "enemies" will look like righteous strength. When you worship power, the value and dignity of others is solely measured by their conformity to you.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Imagine claiming your god is behind powerful and wealthy people stripping food assistance, healthcare, USAID, environmental protections, food protections, terrorizing immigrants, and senseless wars, then getting so offended when people reject your god.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Please pray for my community here in Idaho, especially Twin Falls and the families of those who were killed and injured in the mass shooting. Please speak out for common sense gun reform so that we don’t have to keep living through perpetual gun violence like this. Lord, have mercy.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My next newsletter "Resenting Generosity" is coming tomorrow. In it, I reflect on the Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers and how it challenges the grumbling we often hear from within Christianity when others, like immigrants, are shown generosity. Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We are living in a time where many Christians are more offended by someone saying that the government should help feed and clothe children than they are about the government bombing and starving children all while claiming to be a “Christian nation.”

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"I was hungry" and you cut SNAP. "I was thirsty" and you cut funding to ensure clean water. "I was sick" and you cut medicaid. "I was a stranger" and you deported me. "I was in prison" and you exploited me for cheap labor. "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me."-Jesus

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We are living in a time when advocating for children to not be starved and bombed is more controversial than starving and bombing children.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When you worship power, compassion will look like a sin.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity, and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

One of the most blatant forms of hypocrisy in our time is when Christians hold all ordinary people accountable to an extremely rigid set of moral standards, all while holding themselves and the president accountable to no standards at all.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Jesus’ harshest words in the gospels wasn’t towards prostitutes, other religions, or undocumented immigrants. Jesus’ harshest words were towards the rich and religious who used God’s words to justify exploitation and oppression. Yet many want us to believe the opposite.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If your definition of religious freedom only applies to Christianity, then you don't believe in religious freedom. You believe in fascism.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, the needy to be called "parasites," and our planet to be ravaged, all while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Heartbreakingly, those who believe only those who believe and look like them here on Earth deserve the best also believe that way about heaven.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was convincing many Americans and Christians to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires and empathy more than cruelty.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The road to climate disaster is lined with billionaires and politicians telling you to calm down as they profit from pollution and pillaging the Earth.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's always "America was founded on Christian principles!" until it comes to welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, or loving our neighbors.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“They should have just complied!” They did and they got killed anyway. “They should have just obeyed the law.” They were and they got killed anyway. “They should have come here legally!” They did and they got killed anyway.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Christian Nationalism looks like seeing Jesus being executed by Romans in broad daylight and saying, “he should have just obeyed the law.”

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No one should be dying from immigration enforcement.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

America has never been susceptible to communism. It has always been susceptible to fascism. Know your history. Know your context. Know smokescreens when you see them. The threat of communism has always been a smokescreen used by fascists in America.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The most successful political propaganda in our time was convincing millions of people that caring for others and the planet was somehow a threat to America.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My newsletter tomorrow is called, “Why I Stay Christian In A World Of Christian Nationalism.” In it, I look at the question many have asked about why I continue to be a Christian in the face of all the harm being caused under the banner of Christianity. Join here: benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile?

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One of the most blatant forms of hypocrisy in our time is when Christians hold all ordinary people accountable to the most rigid moral standards, all while holding themselves and their preferred politicians accountable to no standards at all.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A Christianity rooted in patriarchy will always define women first and foremost by their relationship to men. A Christianity rooted in the gospel of Jesus will see women first and foremost as human beings created in God's image. May we understand the difference.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If your God can’t succeed if women have equal rights, you are not worshiping God. You are worshiping misogyny.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that universal healthcare and raising the minimum wage will somehow “cripple the economy” but billionaires not paying the same tax rate as the rest of us is somehow “healthy for the economy.”

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If your patriotism attracts white nationalists, it isn't patriotism. It's hate. The same is true for your Christianity.

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