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If you interpret monotheism as incompatible with materialism and as prescriptive of equality, most Jews, Christians and Muslims lose it at the first commandment.
Edit: Self included, naturally.
This is why you hang out with Catholics instead of the evil christians.
This is why you hang out with people with good heart no matter the religion.
Like Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum?
The more conservative American Catholics have a theology that's close to the right-wing, protestant-derived groups around them. Ask Paul or Rick about how their views on evolution jive with the Vatican's official position, and they'll start to squirm.
I don't think the US evangelicals really qualify as christians. They've created their own thing based on the same symbology, and have kept some of the names, but it has very little in common.
I wish Christians in red states were Christians.
I’ve taken to begging churches in my state to investigate the states systemic refusal to investigate the physical and sexual abuse of children. I’ll see if our “Christians” believe in the words of Christ.
They will pray about it. God's will and all that.
Strictly speaking, I don't think there's a single scripture that specifically calls out sexual abuse of children. There's general prohibitions against sex outside of marriage and such, but nothing that applies directly to pedophilia.
You get there by not being a monster. Literal, direct interpretations of the Bible won't do it.
If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Matthew 18:6
It often interpreted to refer to people who are new to the faith, but I think that it includes children too.
I'll tell you exactly why these trump supporting Christians don't realize this, it's because most of them don't actually think critically about what's actually in the Bible. They have piss poor media literacy, and their example of Christianity is what their probably racist parents and community instilled into them. That's how my father is.
...pretty much this: they're conformant authoritarians and christian nationalism just happens to be the cultural identity in which they were raised...
Exactly. It has nothing to do with following Jesus, and everything with cultural identity. They identify as Christian because they were raised that way, not because they actually care about anything Jesus said.
So, which one keeps giving it septic tanks full of dead babies?
And why the fuck do we tolerate this shit existing when that's the benign version?
MAGA is a cult. There's nothing Christian about it.
There’s nothing Christian about it.
You fucking wish.
Most white evangelical Christianity is a cult as well, with beliefs that directly contradict their own scriptures.
Most blatant is the "Prosperity Gospel", which blatantly and directly preaches the polar opposite of what Jesus said explicitly several times.
"Prosperity Gospel" seems such a copout for cult-leaders to justify getting rich on their congregation.
So much for "eye of a needle"...
They seem pretty inline with much of Christian history
I'm just glad people can tell the difference between Christ and Trump, the beast of revelation