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There is something about the giddy way @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com calls him stupid that gives me sustenance.
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He so bored
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I think maybe it gets too close for some people to the idea that mankind has created God in its own image. On a collective level, but also on a personal level.
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I mean, to refuse to accept that, you have to ignore such a massive swaths of Christian history. As another commenter mentioned, the entire Christian conquest by Spain of the Americas. Which featured a lot of genocide among other things!
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Just picking up on this conversation late, but also Christian nationalists are absolutely Christians. Again, it’s a cop out.
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So I’ve been thinking today about whether a strain of that thought might be infecting and informing some Republican Christians’ enthusiasm to literally destroy the country, led by God’s emissary Donald Trump.
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They don’t even hide this, it’s 100% about that. Another less interrogated question, I think, is the fact that in “mainstream” evangelical prophecy circles — such as one even exists — it’s generally agreed that the US is not a character in the story, if it even exists at the second coming.
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A great example of this is that the movements to preserve slavery and to abolish it in the US were both largely *explicitly* Christian movements.
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And again, saying “well that person isn’t a true Christian because they don’t follow the precepts of Jesus,” is just an absolute copout.
Christianity has been developing for over 2000 years. It’s been used for much good. It’s also been used for much evil.
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the opposite.
Likewise, you can be a person who uses your religious faith for good, and tries to, while also acknowledging that in other parts of that same system, people use the same texts, the same songs the same buildings, sometimes the literal same church pews, for absolute evil.
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That’s what I’m getting at. Again, religious beliefs are absolutely a reflection of their adherents, and the myth of a universal “changed heart” that comes from accepting Christ is just something evangelicals tell themselves. Some people become better people through their faith. Some do (cont’d)
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Nobody said anything even remotely resembling that, but have fun with that straw man you just murdered
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What is self-defeating?
Admitting that religion is a reflection of its adherents and not the other way around?
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It’s fine to talk about differences, but to pretend that both do not legitimately fall under the umbrella of Christianity, that’s a bad trap
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Yes. They are.
Pretending that you get to exclude yourself from them by saying they are not real Christians is the ultimate cop out, and it allows people to ignore the reality that the greatest threat to this country is a powerful form of Christianity.
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Bolivar, Tennessee too.
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I feel like that’s just assumed at this point. “Please consider any idiot words the fault of voice text”
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There are still so many people who just need a nudge to feel like they’ve got people to go with, etc. I’m already seeing people who have NEVER protested. It’s happening.
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They all got the shits
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“Mama get me a funnel cake”
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I already forgot what I wrote lol