"There was a reason I wasn’t taught the history of the Bible or U.S. empire: Christian Zionist theology crumbles under the weight of fact and history. But in order to fully leave that world behind, I had to physically leave, get an education, and meet people who were different from me."
#Israel #evangelicals #Zionism #bible #Trump #Gaza
/2
Doktor Zoom explains why, in Texas, getting politicans to enact legislation assuring that summer camps for children (many of them church-based) are safe is an uphill climb:
"For a lot of fundagelical Christians, taking care of each other is something people should only do on their own, because God wants government to be very, very limited."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/3
https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-texas-could-require-less-drowny
@wdlindsy@toad.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social Having grown up in the Southern Baptist denomination, it was a very weird dichotomy of “the government shouldn’t be doing charity; that’s the church’s place” and “we’re not going to help those people.”
"Following Hurricane Helene last fall, the 'Standing for Freedom Center' explained that the death and destruction of a natural disaster must be understood through 'sound Christian doctrine,' which is why no one should think that the hurricane had anything to do with 'climate change,' which isn’t real, and is in fact 'a fabricated crisis that is weaponized by the global elites.'”
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/4
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/5
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/5
"But most importantly, natural disasters are a reminder to 'repent or perish,' because see point #1 about living in a fallen world."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/6
"But most importantly, natural disasters are a reminder to 'repent or perish,' because see point #1 about living in a fallen world."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
/6
Then the king will say to those on his right, "come, you who are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world."
For I was an immigrant and you put a mask on your face, threatened me with a gun, smashed my car window, disappeared me to a concentration camp in a swamp, and fed me from dishes on the floor.
#Trump #Republicans #Jesus #evangelicals #Christians #bible #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps #MaskedThugs
/7
Then the king will say to those on his right, "come, you who are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world."
For I was an immigrant and you put a mask on your face, threatened me with a gun, smashed my car window, disappeared me to a concentration camp in a swamp, and fed me from dishes on the floor.
#Trump #Republicans #Jesus #evangelicals #Christians #bible #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps #MaskedThugs
/7
For I was starving, and you refused to see my face, chose to ignore that my children were dying from hunger, and turned away saying that we were getting what we deserved.
For I was sick and in desperate need of medicine and you chose to end programs providing medicine to me, spread lies about diseases and their prevention, and with your lies made my children dangerously susceptible to infection.
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #Christians #bible #starvation #Gaza #USAID #RFKJr #vaccines
/8
For I was starving, and you refused to see my face, chose to ignore that my children were dying from hunger, and turned away saying that we were getting what we deserved.
For I was sick and in desperate need of medicine and you chose to end programs providing medicine to me, spread lies about diseases and their prevention, and with your lies made my children dangerously susceptible to infection.
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #Christians #bible #starvation #Gaza #USAID #RFKJr #vaccines
/8
For I was working as hard as I could to make ends meet on my small salary, and you enacted tax laws giving tax breaks to those whose pockets were already stuffed with money.
For I was taunted and bullied for being different, and you commanded my school to ignore the bullying and to teach that people like me were not normal and deserve ridicule.
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #Christians #bible #BigBeautifulBill #TaxCuts #EconomicElites #workers #jobs #LGBTQ
/9
For I was working as hard as I could to make ends meet on my small salary, and you enacted tax laws giving tax breaks to those whose pockets were already stuffed with money.
For I was taunted and bullied for being different, and you commanded my school to ignore the bullying and to teach that people like me were not normal and deserve ridicule.
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #Christians #bible #BigBeautifulBill #TaxCuts #EconomicElites #workers #jobs #LGBTQ
/9
@wdlindsy@toad.social For I was praying for a cure for my illness, and as soon as one came along, you took it away from me with some misguided belief that a vaccine was evil, and gave me a syringe of ivermectin instead and told me if it works on sheep, it'll work on you.
For I worshiped differently than you did, and you informed me that you and only you know the "real" God and how to worship "Him" and that people like me were not welcome in your midst.
For I was raped by my pastor and beaten by my husband, and you shrugged your shoulders when I tried to report what was happening to me, and said, "Boys will be boys and men will be men."
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #Christians #bible #Islamophobia #antisemitism #patriarchy #misogyny #SexualAbuse
/10
Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
#Trump #Republicans #Jesus #evangelicals #Christians #bible #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps #MaskedThugs #starvation #Gaza #USAID #RFKJr #vaccines #BigBeautifulBill #TaxCuts #EconomicElites #workers #jobs #LGBTQ #Islamophobia #antisemitism #patriarchy #misogyny #SexualAbuse
/11
"I don’t think women should hold office in general. That’s my position. That’s my stance. I think women should run the home" announces the young woman running for office in Arizona, Mylie Biggs, daughter of well-known Mormon politician Andy Biggs.
#Trump #Republicans #bible #women #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #FemaleSubordination
/12
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/female-arizona-senate-candidate-women-shouldnt-hold-office-22263834
"I don’t think women should hold office in general. That’s my position. That’s my stance. I think women should run the home" announces the young woman running for office in Arizona, Mylie Biggs, daughter of well-known Mormon politician Andy Biggs.
#Trump #Republicans #bible #women #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #FemaleSubordination
/12
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/female-arizona-senate-candidate-women-shouldnt-hold-office-22263834
@wdlindsy@toad.social "I'll just pull this ladder up behind me"
@wdlindsy@toad.social
This is one of the most Republican statements ever. An instant classic of truth being more ridiculous than fiction.
@wdlindsy@toad.social So, if she believes that women shouldn’t hold office, why is she running for office? Oh, never mind, I’m getting a headache after just posing the question.
"It is necessary to understand how radicalized, how extreme, Christian Nationalists at every level of government are.
They all follow some version of this manifesto [i.e., the Statement on Christian Nationalism & the Gospel]."
~ Andra Watkins
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #OpusDei #HeritageFoundation #FederalistSociety #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #ChristianNationalists #theocracy
/13
https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/christian-nationalists-we-will-force
@wdlindsy@toad.social What a disgrace to humanity these Christian Nationalists.
"They make laws in its service and put manifesto ahead of Constitution (which is another reason you see parts of the Constitution disappearing from US government sites right now.) They WILL force every American to live under laws drawn from their Biblical interpretations if we don’t stop them."
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #OpusDei #HeritageFoundation #FederalistSociety #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #ChristianNationalists #theocracy
/14
"The long quest of white evangelicals has been to undermine and eradicate liberal Protestantism and social justice Christianity in its many forms. They, and they alone, must stand atop of the mountain of American religion as its rightful heirs and leaders.
So, it was inevitable that they’d come after the rest of us.
Because they don’t think we are Christians anyway."
~ Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
/15
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/religion-is-next
"The long quest of white evangelicals has been to undermine and eradicate liberal Protestantism and social justice Christianity in its many forms. They, and they alone, must stand atop of the mountain of American religion as its rightful heirs and leaders.
So, it was inevitable that they’d come after the rest of us.
Because they don’t think we are Christians anyway."
~ Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
/15
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/religion-is-next
William Lindsey :toad:
