I was raised in evangelical Baptist culture, where people repeatedly said that Roman Catholics weren’t Christian. The pope was sometimes called The Whore of Babylon. The evangelicals I knew would not consider Latin American immigrants to be Christian
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One way of reading the Gospels is as a critique of the Jewish religion as practiced at the time. The deep irony of Christianity is that every single critique Jesus makes applies to modern Christianity. This essay is just one of many examples, and not even the most striking. Jesus preached radical poverty and pacifism. He said, in the story, to respond to theft with generousity and to violence with submission. That is the opposite of everything the Republicans and the White Christians teach. He attacked the temples for selling sacraficial animals. He attacked the priests for praying on the street corner. He attacked the hypocrites for stoning the white they all used.
Christianity is absolute proof that myth fails. They are, literally, the complete opposite of what their myths say they should be. What a joke!
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Rape cover-ups by Jehovah’s Witnesses as exposed on NBC Dateline:
Conservative Christians are all about judgement for the sake of feeling superior, and power for the sake of making others do what they want. Religion is one means to the end and criminalization of immigrants is another.
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A friend from college was dragged to a fundamentalist church as a boy. He told me that the preacher would inveigh against “them idol worshippers in the city”. He said he was nearly an adult when he realized the “them idol worshippers” were Catholics. As a child he visualized some Hollywood Bible epic with people in loin cloths bowing before a statue of some farm animal.
Thanks. Nice little tutorial. I learned something. I had heard only bits and pieces of this before.
Not only are most Hispanics Christian, but many if not a majority of those who came in the famous caravans from Central America are evangelicals. My stepson is a reporter who traveled with one of the caravans from the border with Guatemala to Tijuana. He found that the large majority of them were evangelicals who were coming to the Promised Land that the American missionaries who converted them had described. That the American evangelicals reject their own coreligionists is only to be expected from them when the coreligionists are darker and don’t speak whatever variety of English the evangelicals in the US speak.
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YES - a blanket statement. YES - you deserve it. And who knows, maybe there are in fact 4-5 actual Christians in this country. People who actually read the Bible and follow Jesus. I suppose it’s possible, and maybe one of them is you. But in my actual family, EVERY “Christian” is a proud supporter of Trump - the most vile bastard I’ve ever seen in politics. And when I watch “Christian” leaders on TV, they line up behind the vile bastard in the White House and basically call anyone who coesn’t kiss his ring a traitor.
Since the “Christian” embrace of the stunning rottenness of Republican is nearly 100%, I have to conclude (as does everybody on this planet) that Christianity (like in your fantasy world) is dead and that the crowds in the churches are “Christians” who would hang Jesus from a tree, set Him on fire, and laugh while He burns for the crime of being a liberal.
Now, if you supposed actual Christians start fighting back and proving that there are more that 4-5 of you on the planet - I’ll gladly say that Christianity is not totally dead. That will take an immense effort for the handful of you who are supposed to exist. I’ll believe it when I see it.