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"In the justice system, as the Supreme Court and other federal judges hand down decisions that clearly treat people differently based on gender, sexual orientation, race and class, evangelicals who claim to want a Christian nation continue to fight on the side of oppressors. A Christian nation would want a justice system based in compassion and mercy."
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/27/do-right-wing-evangelicals-really-want-a-christian-nation-hell-no/
aocommunalpunch
(4,245 posts)The Magistrate
(95,257 posts)"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and not tried."
2naSalit
(86,824 posts)mopinko
(70,265 posts)perfect.
themaguffin
(3,828 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Just another American misinterpretation of the movement Jesus started.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Are they atheists? Are they secretly followers of some other religion?
CivicGrief
(147 posts)liars, hypocrites, opportunists, hate-filled sacks of puss, douchebags, slobbering idiots. The list could go on.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Christians aren't inherently better people than non-Christians.
themaguffin
(3,828 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)So, you think Christians are better people than non-Christians.
themaguffin
(3,828 posts)Elessar Zappa
(14,084 posts)Sociopaths dont really believe in anything, religion included. Its not that theyre atheists, its that theyre nothing. They dont care.
CivicGrief
(147 posts)Then we can work on Christmas.
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)of the MAJORITY of the "Christian Faith"
The minority few who were advocating for "mercy and compassion" can continue through the end times, but the truth is that will never come to be anything more than a mythological meme.
edhopper
(33,635 posts)actual Christian nations acted exactly like that. The modern idea that Christian rule is not oppressive, bigoted and racist is not the reality of the past 2000 years.
artemisia1
(756 posts)not grace is their guiding motivation. They do NOT believe in Christianity or Christ at all or they would be incapable of violating Jesus's Golden Rule of "Do unto others...". They delight in being unjust, moralistic (not moral!), controlling, unforgiving and heavy handed.
Celerity
(43,582 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)So is there really anything wrong with questioning their "Christian" beliefs?
The Magistrate
(95,257 posts)The persons the author castigates would, in their turn, denounce him as no Christian at all.
I don't intend to press the matter, I've other things to do with my day, but confident expressions of what Jesus would do, usually based on claims he said this or that in a Gospel text, amuse me no end..,.
GoodRaisin
(8,930 posts)They are barbarians.
Caliman73
(11,745 posts)Thing is there is no "one" Christianity or "true" Christianity. There are several thousand "traditions" including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and non-Denominational groups. Each one claims to be the actual tradition of Christ. The Bible, the book upon which all Christian groups say their "one, true" tradition is based, has several versions, with different books included; and in that collection of books, you can find so many contradictions and justifications for things that most today would agree is abhorrent.
Right wingers want THEIR version of Christianity to be the law of the land. You may disagree with that version and think it is illegitimate, but they think the one you follow is likely illegitimate too.