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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You obviously don't live in the south. They vote for Republicans like people who rally for their favorite football team.

No matter how horrible Republicans are, religious people vote for them because they are the god party and Democrats don't talk about it, so clearly they hate God.

This is how they think and church leaders make sure to pass on political propaganda in church to get more people to vote Republican.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's 1/4 of the United States. That hardly warrants such a broad statement.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys... it's bleak down there...

We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they've swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn't a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.

Seriously... if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature... but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity... there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.

[–] HoopyFrood@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Sir, this is the internet, not everybody lives in the derp south, you gotta contextualize things for the rest of us