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Trump called Iowa evangelicals ‘so-called Christians’ and ‘pieces of shit’, book says
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Look up supply side Jesus, look up how many christy denominations like SDA who supported and pushed for vaccinations, love not hate, support not bigotry. They’re all the same?
There is no such thing as “Christians” when it comes to blanket definitions and groupings. The world is far more complex than that, and so are christy religions.
Now, I can just feel the “no true Scotsman” counter coming. To be sure we’re on the same page:
So given this, when we have these morons going on about things like this: https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak
These people reject christ and his teachings, they aren’t just simply not living up to the ideals of Jesus, They OUTRIGHT REJECT CHRIST and the teachings of love/kindness/respect. Respect for the prostitutes, the diseased or disabled, the poor, etc., these things are the opposite of what these gelical hate-fucks believe and support.
Once again, a significant departure from the teachings of Christ to the ramblings of an orange asshole. They’re trump cockian, not christian.
Most of these supply-siders treat their christy bs as nothing more than a brand name or tribal identity with very few actual beliefs attached. The name of their religion is just a verbal shorthand for whatever their peer group thinks is good, so if you're a hardcore propertarian and your tribal identity is "Christian", then boom, you have an interpretation of Jesus that that contradicts everything Jesus is supposed to represent.
But go ahead, tell us how they’re all the same.
no one said all christians are the same - though the differences are nominal at best, in my opinion - we simply said that all christians are christians
You said you see no difference, then when someone points out the difference, you say they're not all the same. .........
Maga has warped into their own thing. You can even see it when the leader of Maga calls them [see article].
Or see articles how Maga people are leaving their church because the church is not extreme enough.
I said the differences are nominal, meaning they don't ultimately matter when you are living a life of magical thinking at the expense of those around you.
Yeah you tried to cover it up when confronted.
See again how Magas are leaving their churches because the churches aren't extreme enough.
I'm not covering anything up, and I don't feel there's been any confrontation.
I think christianity is frankly embarrassing, the fact that a judean blood-mystery cult has survived to the 21st century is again, embarrassing.
there's nothing unique about christianity, it came from a time and place that churned out these cults almost a means of necessity; it's all bronze-aged fan fiction and I don't care which one is your favorite when they are all so revolting and insulting to all it is to be human.
Now you're going on a weird rant instead of seeing the very, very apparent and very large difference between Christian and Maga ~~Christian~~ (we can drop the Christian part).
it seems like you're really not following, best of luck I suppose
Funny because I think the same thing. You seem to have no sense of extremism, no scale of how severe or mild something is.
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