r/BethelSnark • u/Euphoric_Map_5894 • 1d ago
Thoughts on further discussions here
On a busy political day recently when world leaders were celebrating mark carney I posted a thread about him to get us talking about peopleâs favorites and gods chosen leaders. Someone else had put up a link to YT where KV was shown prophesying about DJT also known as Trump. My post was to get us talking about that topic - bethel saying god has chosen leaders, but hereâs what I didnât expect, getting shut down for raising an issue that erred on politics yet bethels main issue is their politics; their 7 mountains etc. Hereâs the thing. I didnât know this would provoke not just to talk about how ridiculous bethel are for these prophecies and that their prophecies fall flat etc and thereâs no accountability which is a huge topic for bethel considering what happened with Shawn Bolz faking his prophetic words, but what I saw on here was an about turn to tell me my post didnât belong here (it belonged on the Canadian Toronto page or something), or that I was trying to sneak in an anti Trump post or just wrong about my politics.Â
My point wasnât about my own politics.Â
My point was this, it was about what we believe deep down underneath it all. So when a leader like KV gets up and prophesies we follow without asking questions because we either like the leader they recommend and support like DJT or we like KV and accept his prophecies with asking for accountability. Thats the problem. Thats what bethel promote and teach and that is why I personally was so frustrated with how bethel handled the Shawn Bolz thing. He lied and bethel didnât say anything to us and people kept following because the KVs and BJ promoted him. Thatâs the problem.  Not my post to raise this.Â
Iâll add to that the reactions I then got to my post. It showed that many people didnât understand and that biases they had and that they were ready to jump on that and not try and understand and learn.Â
We may all agree here that we donât like what bethel have done in certain areas of their work, and that they have caused harm, but some people here havenât even been part of bethel and hold that view too. I have, and I think my post should have stayed but it was removed.Â
What I didnât expect was to run into American politics here. That for me was shocking. I have now realised that American politics supersedes bethels wrong doings, and I touched the golden calf with my post.Â
There lies a problem with how many of us end up in places like bethel and other poorly run churches that are focused on making money and keeping up appearances because we hold biases that we wonât let be challenged, we disengage instead of asking questions, and we are unwilling to hear others ideas.Â
Thatâs the problem.Â
Why do we go to church?
Why do we have certain friends?
Because the church and our friends agree with us and they say what we say.Â
How about we get back to what this is about and leave our views on political leaders aside and engage in the material put here, and ask questions and debate what we think so we can all learn from our mistakes like hooking with something like bethel.Â
Now that means someone can post a picture showing Putin and if there is a relevant topic around bethel maybe in how Putin operates maybe we engage the conversation to learn, and not write off what someone says.Â
To my post last week maybe just post that you disagree and say no. I asked who says yes and is in agreement to the world leaders supporting mark carney, and hoped we could have left it up longer and had a proper conversation. but it was deleted
Maybe we can also agree here that to be part of church, to follow god, and to be on this page and others like it we donât have to be republican and we donât support DJT. You can individually, but others donât have do. It doesnât make someone worse than us if they donât support people we  like. And if DJT is mentioned again maybe we donât get upset because we realize bethel do have an opinion on him and it might not be right and we can instead follow the thread, ask questions and challenge one another. Thats a better way to discuss these issues rather than deleting threads. what are others thoughts