They are both religious and evangelical. American evangelical Christianity has ALWAYS been white supremacist. It rationalized slavery, fuels the pro-birth movement, steers our foreign policy straight into evil, and far more. This ain't new and these people ain't different. - ThreadSky

nkjemisin.bsky.social • 423 days ago

They are both religious and evangelical. American evangelical Christianity has ALWAYS been white supremacist. It rationalized slavery, fuels the pro-birth movement, steers our foreign policy straight into evil, and far more. This ain't new and these people ain't different.

Reposted from Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

They are neither religious nor evangelical. They found a euphemism for "white supremacist/nationalist" that reporters buy, every time:
Trump Is Connecting With a Different Type of Evangelical Voter www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/u...

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tasiaf.bsky.social•423 days ago

exactly. people need to admit this is what their religion is about and stop pretending these beliefs have anything to do with love and kindness

maurlfox.bsky.social•423 days ago

Every time I tell someone this they doubt me. They can't all be like that! You're right, they aren't, but just like women treating all strange men as potential threats, it's safer to assume the evangelical Christian you're talking to is a Christian Nationalist. #yesallchristians

obdriftwood.bsky.social•423 days ago

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

queenofland.bsky.social•423 days ago

and the amount of Black family I have that bought everything that branch of supremacy has sold....whoo chile...

azathoth.bsky.social•423 days ago

And yet, people act so surprised. Sigh. The power of self-delusional, it be mighty indeed.

mrrb.bsky.social•423 days ago

💯💯💯

yoursinegritude.bsky.social•83 days ago

I’m rewatching the documentary “Happy Shiny People” about the cult Church the Duggars were in. Its official name was Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). I’m curious if there were any Black member families? All the pictures from the 80’s & 90’s I’ve seen, it’s only White folks. #Gothard

docum3nt.bsky.social•423 days ago

Many are. But it's also important that we don't fall for the story that they are all nice harmless little Christians with which they fool the gullible press, as @jeffjarvis.bsky.social said. They abuse the identity of Christians and you won't find them in church Sunday, or caring for their neighbor.

scribblegurl.bsky.social•423 days ago

👏👏👏👏👏

debbshock.com•423 days ago

right, this has always been the case, since America was founded. People act like this is new.

mical23.bsky.social•423 days ago

...and that book they thump, never been opened...

satanicmechanic.bsky.social•423 days ago

Wouldn't matter, that book is full of evil anyway

nkjemisin.bsky.social•423 days ago

Any book can be used for evil by evil people.

satanicmechanic.bsky.social•423 days ago

Keep desperately pretending that Christianity hasn't made the world and its followers/victims' lives worse in every way for 2000 years. Anyway, I'm gonna go see what evil I can get up to with The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar

jdandeneau.bsky.social•423 days ago

it’s telling people how to eat at Brazilian bbq. It’s colonialism.

nkjemisin.bsky.social•422 days ago

You understand The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been repeatedly banned by Christofascists and health freaks for "promoting gluttony," right? It's hilarious to me that y'all picked that one as an example of a book that can't be used by evil people.

mical23.bsky.social•423 days ago

Missed that part...
Please note, I don't hold it up and say Holy Holy!
Lots of historical evil recorded, for reasons I don't know. Thanks.

mical23.bsky.social•423 days ago

Real Christianity is inward faith and outward love. Think Jimmy Carter. The church, evangelicals, et al have cooped the name for their own purposes - non good.
It's the same as the GOP Taliban Party has done with words like Freedom and Patriots. Thanks.

mical23.bsky.social•423 days ago

Absolutely!

mical23.bsky.social•423 days ago

Can't argue.

jcalchemist.bsky.social•423 days ago

Louder for the folks in the balcony.

bookishnea.bsky.social•422 days ago

Evangelicals are an offshoot of Southern Baptists, who exist due to the claim the Bible endorses and commands chattel slavery. Their racism is foundational and baked in from “outbreeding” the other (Duggars) to sending their kids on missions only to poor majority black catholic countries…

bookishnea.bsky.social•422 days ago

…subconsciously underlining “black=poor, helpless, & in need of White Savior” while risking no chance of the mission subjects challenging the kids’ conservative views on birth control, abortion, or the role of women.

bookishnea.bsky.social•422 days ago

Gothard’s Institute for Basic Life Principles teaches God wants women to look a very specific way that is only achievable by white women (and a subset of those.)

Everything preached and taught in the pulpit reeks of white supremacy. Everything.

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