I was trying to figure out if I had this “Trump derangement syndrome” that I read about in an article recently. I read somewhere that it is more his character than policies that are the problem. Being a Democrat, I do not agree with all the Republican policies, but that doesn’t mean I hate all Republicans. I try to listen and not reflexively tune them out. I feel there is room for both.
Just for some context here. In the US, Christianity is everyday, more an identity than a religion. The “evangelicals” that support Trump overwhelmingly don’t attend services, don’t read the Bible, and don’t pray unless they’re in trouble. The evangelical movement has been cooped by the Republican party so thoroughly, that there isn’t much difference between conservative politics and Christian belief in the average worshiper’s mind. Christianity is the justification for having power, not the ethic of how to wield it.
I’m not playing “true Scotsman”, or trying to define what a Christian ought to be. I’m just posting this for the people who are mystified at the disconnect between the teachings of Jesus and the support for regressive and hateful politics.
It’s ironic that apotheoses of the individual, so central to modern conservative thought is antithetical to patriotism, faith, and family values.
An evangelical leader is warning that conservative Christians are now rejecting the teachings of Jesus as “liberal talking points.”
I would reverse that, it’s the republican party that has been taken over by the evangelicals. In the end it’s the same result though.
I would argue that Christianity has moved much further toward reactionary politics than the other way round. Evangelicals in the 70s were pro-choice for example. I’d also point out that reactionary politics is at a high water mark while Christianity is in decline.
There’s a trap in being a critic of religion that one tends to overestimate the power of faith.
now you’re just making shit up.
GOP is appropriating evangelical culture. In this timeline, Michael Rapaport is king.
(I know it’s a stretch but one person out there has to get this one, eh?)
I literally got called a communist by family members for actually acting the way they raised me, because apparently its communist to want to care about less well off people than yourself (and we weren’t even doing that well to start with…)