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In reply to the discussion: This Presidency Has Exposed My White Christian Friends/ Editorial by John Pavlovitz [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)47. It is not just Christianity.
Some believers in every other religion preach hate and the concept of supremacy of their beliefs. The problem is endemic to organized religion, not just one organized religion.
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This Presidency Has Exposed My White Christian Friends/ Editorial by John Pavlovitz [View all]
Tom Yossarian Joad
Nov 2019
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many of your christian friends sold out to an antichrist for politiical ends and expediency
Thomas Hurt
Nov 2019
#3
Agreed. The response to Obama's election and re-election should have been clue enough.
Garrett78
Nov 2019
#44
Due to your experience, you likely have great insight into people's character
Blue_true
Nov 2019
#57
Points well taken. And I know that the racial/tribal bigotry exists everywhere.
erronis
Nov 2019
#48
Do you think our species will ever mature to the extent that we openly lay the blame
stopbush
Nov 2019
#10
Good point. A tendency toward selection and tribalism did cause some to survive while others went
Blue_true
Nov 2019
#98
I don't think we can lay the blame on Christianity, but we should recognize that religion is a tool.
Garrett78
Nov 2019
#51
If you think it's bad to see the evil unveiled in your fellow worshipers, imagine it's your family.
Girard442
Nov 2019
#14
Thats how i've kept some friends. Theres plenty of other things to bitch about.
oldsoftie
Nov 2019
#97
This happened to my brother & his wife, religion got its claws into them and they turned into
yaesu
Nov 2019
#26
They've been exposed as long as I can remember. See: "moral majority" in the 80s.
NCLefty
Nov 2019
#30
But Chump is pandering to the radical end times apocalypse worshipping side of it.
Initech
Nov 2019
#33
I wish people would call out Fox "news" for all the enabling it has done of hate speech.
Scotch-Irish
Nov 2019
#29
If only we could all start over and methodically remove these people from our lives.
Baitball Blogger
Nov 2019
#32
Excellent post and also Velveteen Ocelot. I am very discouraged to witness the unmasking.
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2019
#34
This whole embrace of the anti christ mf 45 by these evangelicals have really turned me off
kimbutgar
Nov 2019
#59
What John Pavlovitz says here has been the thing that has really broken my heart.
madaboutharry
Nov 2019
#60