Coming from conservative evangelicalism into mainline spaces was disorienting because I feel like I have to constantly assert that yes, they are also Christians and yes, they really want and do bad things.
It’s exasperating because it invalidates a lot of pain and doesn’t adequately address abuse.
It’s exasperating because it invalidates a lot of pain and doesn’t adequately address abuse.
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Talia Lavin
liberal christians genuinely cannot wrap their heads around the idea that people who fervently believe in jesus can do & want terrible things. it's a minor frustration in the scope of things, but also an astonishing ignorance of history and an unwitting embrace of hegemony
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They will follow Jesus’s commands, as long as they don’t contradict their conservative beliefs.
Which is why they constantly ingest the hate and fear spewed out by Fox News.