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Christians, regardless of denomination, rarely engage in "Christ-like" behaviour.
He was a dirty hippie that didn't like the state and hung out with minorities, women, sex workers, and the homeless. He was about loving "everybody" and sharing (aka communism). The right would fucking hate Jesus in a vacuum.
I wouldn't go that far. The Christian churches in my town all have pro-BLM, pro-LGBTQ, and other progressive golden rule/love thy neighbor type signs outside of their doors.
You know when you play one of those futuristic games and they have a hypothetical online derived religion that goes cultish and nuts and ends up being the bad guys? That's what this feels like.
There's a difference in churches as an institution and the people that attend them.
I think you're missing the point. There are plenty of progressive churches, and plenty of progressive christians out there. No need to make generalizing, sweeping statements about people you don't know.
Dan Olsen did a good documentary comparing the Flat Earth theory with QAnon. Worth a watch.
This is how I approach this as well. I think there is an obvious thread between extremist Christianity and Qanon: that there is a higher power that will reward you and punish your enemies, and all you have to do is never, ever, question it.
Yes, though Q is more specific than the general fire and brimstone style of preaching.
As a Christian outside the US, I'm convinced US Christians are a different group entirely. I find them to be so disagreeable in so many ways. Esp their support of Trump.
It makes a lot more sense when you realize that the religious freedom that America was founded on was the freedom to practice weird kinds of Christianity that the Church of England didn't like. Some of them were cool (Quakers), but Puritans were generally fucking crazy.
They found the right vessels. Tapped into ancient hatred. Or not so ancient.
Yep. Also the Evangelical narrative of being divinely favored/exceptional is not too different from the conspiracy mindset of feeling you're the "only person who knows the truth" and those on the outside are either ignorant or "the enemy".
Different sects of Christianity absolutely have varying degrees of progressivism and open-mindedness. Like if you compare Evangelicals to Protestants.
