Seeing much of the media describe Vance Boelter as “deeply religious” without pointing out that he belongs to a fanatical Christian supremacist sect that teaches the US is literally possessed by demons.
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Problem is that a lot of this "belief" has seeped into the evangelical and mega church world, even if that is not the message being taught by church leadership. You hear those words and beliefs from church parishioners who are getting it and bringing it to the church.
I don’t know. People come across these groups and are horrified, but like, most “mainstream” evangelicals believe in literal demonic possession and “spiritual warfare” between angels and demons trying to control the world. These things don’t read as “fanatical” to most US Christians.
I'm not sure it's bad or incorrect to just paint him as a perfectly normal, run of the mill republican. I've not seen anything reported on him that would make him particularly stand out at the state GOP convention.
The biggest area of difference is that normie baptists are deathly afraid of looking or feeling silly. They are in lockstep on the whole political thing.
Both sides-ism. It's what passes for ethics and professionalism in the media these days. "We'll say words on this side, and then we'll say words on that side, we'll give both sides equal weight and call it fair"
what they need to address is the ease of public information that leads to home addresses being EASY to find. The FCC did this when they decided the burden is on YOU to remove your personal info from the web basically they sided with the data brokers. it will only get worse
Well, if you look at world history, you’ll find that deeply religious people kill people who believe differently on the regular. It’s a feature, not a bug. It’s WHY we have separation of church and state, because the founders remembered the sectarian wars of Europe.
What is a “real Christian” to you? Please define specifically what that means. Does it have to do with labels, actions, church attendance, or simple guilt by association?
If you wanted rules for who is and is not a Christian, perhaps Christianity should not have rejected all the rules from Judaism in favor of just the Nicene creed.
Anyone who professes to be a Christian, by whatever standards, rules, creeds, etc. that govern their brand of Christianity, is a Christian. The rest is semantics and inside baseball.
Among other problems with it, the "no true Christian" apologetic promotes the idea that Christian = Good... and therefore by extension, Non-Christian = Bad. It serves to push an unconscious religious bigotry narrative in the public mind.
One of many reasons we have taught our kids that the louder someone proclaims their faith, the more you need to watch for the knife in the back and / or your wallet being stolen. To let an individual's actions speak for their true values.
Yes, individual actions! Or organized groups proclaiming a criminal “mission.” If other group members who disagree with that “mission” do not work to stop it or leave the group, then they are complicit. If members of the group attempt to defeat the “mission” from within, are they still complicit?
I urge people to research the New Apostolic Reformation, a deeply fascist cult that is highly influential in the Republican Party and the MAGA movement. Boelter’s crimes didn’t come out of nowhere, and he is far from the only one who believes these things.
This sort of thing is fully mainstream among Minnesota Republicans; if you look at the odious Tom Emmer, who was briefly considered for Speaker of the US House, he is a Christofascist in a similar mold, though not quite as extreme.
It took me awhile to figure out what you were referring to here...
If you thought I was saying that these streaks of Christian dominionism started recently, then no LOL, absolutely not. I've watched its rise my entire 50+ year life.
I was saying that SWAJ ep is a good starting point to learn more
Yeah I was referring to SWAJ, getting to understand the inner working of fanaticism is interesting and I wish I knew about the podcast sooner than I did.
Kunneman and Tony Suerz just told followers to "annihilate the Dems". Their end goal was overthrow and they attempt to glorify everything Trump does or says. They rely on THEIR OWN PREDICTIONS which are all political in nature, rather than on the teachings of Christ. They often misrep the Bible.
THE VICTORY CHANNEL ONLINE FEATURED DUTCH SHEETS, HANK KUNNEMAN AND LANCE WALLENAU all key players in NAR/7 MOUNTAINS MANDATE CULT.The entire goal is a theocracy, run by a tiny group who feel "chosen" to run things, in the cult. End of religous freedom if they succeed. They lie and publish disinfo.
Exactly and I just made a 10 post series on documenting the main players, the theological traditions and connections between Jones Town , the Parhamite murders, the "utopia" attempt that ended in scandal in Zion Illinois, all in the same traditions of pentecoustalism. DUTCH SHEETS ALSO IS NAR,
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Makes a lot of sense.🤔
A lot of Christians really suck.
If you thought I was saying that these streaks of Christian dominionism started recently, then no LOL, absolutely not. I've watched its rise my entire 50+ year life.
I was saying that SWAJ ep is a good starting point to learn more
They're just awful people, too.