John Piper: God Called. You’re fired.

John Piper: God Called. You’re fired.

This morning famous evangelical pastor John Piper tweeted this:

Dear John Piper: If you’re going to present to the world a toxically bigoted thought (much less one masquerading as a Christian tenet), at least have the c0jones to claim that thought as your own. Make the point yourself; don’t hide behind someone else’s words.

Remember: the only thing worse than a self-righteous hate monger is a passive-aggressive self-righteous hate monger. (Although, as I wrote in New Anti-Gay Presbyterian Denomination: Cowardly Lions, it’s always encouraging when someone can’t force their mouth to say what their heart surely knows is wrong. It means there’s hope for them yet.)

Oh, and God called and left a message for you. I wrote it down and scanned it:


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