I just had a full blown fight with someone about how the evangelical movement is more responsible than anyone for the state of America. I’m sorry evangelicals but you have pumped old-fashioned misogyny and prosperity gospel into the system for decades. The POV that men and money matter most led here
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Often we keep it silent, and listen.
I will not lose friends or lovers over it, and never have.
Only peace I get.... Find grass and trees... At minimum
It is changing soon as you know and we gotta...
Keep that peace 💙🔥✌🏽😊🐾💨🎶
Nothing good do I have to discuss. Nothing.
So, what's a. good cheap area out that way?
Long history of suppressing women.
Beating the Bureaucracy
and the Fake Jesus Fucks
https://ogredragon.substack.com/p/beating-the-bureaucracy
Questioning your faith/ god is the #1 sin. If you believe that from birth, you're pretty screwed.
And this is the group that likely voted.
Plus the coming 2nd coming that justifies the anti-communist russia, pro zionism, and expectation of me being saved and you aren’t.
https://youtu.be/IoSOVxtly2s
I’ve read that one too.
Evangelical agendas are worlds apart from Christ’s teachings.
There are others who get changed by the prejudice against a talented, gifted daughter.
The ones of which you speak aren't being led by true believers who follow Christ's teachings
Now they won’t let their kids wear Halloween costumes but follow a guy who says “motherfucker” to an audience
I see them in everything Trump does.
religion controlling the country is the cry of the conservative
"Unions cannot be involved in politics"
oh yeah church thug? then why do churches get to pay for laws to be fixed and candidates to be elected?
seems a bit fkn unbalanced towards the conservatives if you ask me.
At some point being Republican became a religion of its own though- and while I have no doubt it overlaps with evangelicals- it's not the same.
Growing up in the 80s, it would have been uneasy to predict that Pat Buchanan would be the torchbearer for what eventually would obliterate the Republican Party to hold sway & power at the highest levels of government.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nazi-germany-had-admirers-among-123015538.html
https://religiondispatches.org/how-marketers-invented-old-time-religion/
Religion Harm Studies List:
https://pisoproject.wordpress.com/religion-harm-studies/
https://www.amazon.com/MOSTLY-HARMFUL-Things-Everyone-Religion/dp/B08JJ2MSNV
Religion Is Not Benign
https://www.academia.edu/11700742/Religion_Is_Not_Benign
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33386506-the-harm-done-by-religion
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/150531-religion-science-faith-healing-atheism-people-ngbooktalk
https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-study-shows-half-think-religion-does-more-harm-good
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/faith-and-foolishness/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kennethkim/2017/08/05/religion-and-corporate-america/
How Corporate America Invented Religious America
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-america-invented-religious-right-conservative-roosevelt-princeton-117030/
'One Nation Under God' (How Corporate America Invented Christian America)
https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/13/christian_fundamentalism_is_a_capitalism_invention_the_secret_history_of_american_religion_partner
https://www.rawstory.com/tammy-faye-and-jim-bakker/
If there are evangelical Christians who value all people equally regardless of sex or gender, and who value compassion for the stranger and the needy more than they value material wealth, then I'm willing to hear from them. But the movement, overall, has done bad harm.
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There are...
...there are some here who always bash all religion... even though religion includes the Quaker conductors on the Underground Railroad. Religion includes MLK, Mister Rogers, and Jimmy Carter. Religion includes the people who pulled over, to interrupt my childhood suicide attempt.
It has helped educate me on these matters.
It disgusts me that any of them claim Christianity.
Many believe in the New Testament values of love, tolerance and forgiveness without be slaves to any dogma.
Christian Nationalists use it as a cudgel to support hetero (or posing) Caucasian males as the chosen rulers of all others.
Full agreement here.
Fuck you little jesus and trump too.
This video gives a good overview of your above statement, and why it happened.
I really wish we could all stop pretending that religion has any validity in real life. It's gotten pretty fucking obnoxious 😭🤬
Interesting to trace the lines of how we got here. My ancestors on my dad’s side here for hundred’s years in the north & south. I was researching a female southern ancestor who loudly supported women’s suffrage
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They misinterpret the scripture that says, "Lean not unto your own understanding".
I (not a Christian) remind my mom (a Christian) that only God knows the heart. And that's why I'm not worried at all.
By their fruit etc.
I’m glad your mom has you to remind her of right and wrong.
Those people are awful.
We do all of humanity a grave disservice by continuing to allow them to vote, hold public office and procreate.
https://melodykayyoung.wixsite.com/website/post/they-wanted-protection
history of using Christianity as a religious shield for hate and racism
They are tools of a cynical anti-Christian political movement
YES, that movement has been aided by the 'leaders' of the 'evangelical' movement
They have been lied to and deceived, as have so many others
Blame ALL the liars-in-charge
Jesus preached love & acceptance, all else is not Christianity.
The Universe was saying something, but these evil fucks still didn't listen.
Trump is a liar and the father of lies in others. He is the embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins. The temptation of worldly power Jesus rejected was embraced by Evangelical Trumpers.
🎧 https://artists.landr.com/056870706047
I always knew bc I come from it.
I think we should stop calling them Protestant, bc they don’t adhere to that belief set at all.
Eat this human flesh
Drink this human wine
Do this so you won’t have to murder your children as blood sacrifice to appease your god
In any other context we would recognize the evil
People say that a major turning point in the Book of Revelation will be the mass persecution of "believers" and I have often wondered if this will come not from the secular "worldly" system but from the false teachers of the evangelical movement.
"The person up the front is infallible" - becomes conspiracy-theory belief & leader-worship
"Us vs. them" mentality - people always looking for an enemy to hate
There are more of these bigoted, misogynist, racist fanatics that we care to admit. The only reason we let them gain so much power is because they are mainly white.
It's a cult and they've done a well-funded job of recruiting and maintaining members.
Both books are excellent.
https://go.bsky.app/LshiW3Y
It’s such a relief to not be the only one seeing this
They are responsible for the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, the Anti-Abortion movement, the attacks on civil rights, the packing of courts with radical right-wing activists, etc
I'll start by saying that 1: i am not American and 2: i have only seen few episodes of the handmaid's tale. However, from the legal changes happening to US they seem to be moving more and more to a general ideological and moral seclusion from other countries
They put that moron back in office and with it the beginning of a fascist totalitarian theocracy.
Since their christ never showed up, they are now trying to bring their heaven to earth but by force.