Commentary: Hell no, the right really doesn't want a Christian nation...

[allegorical oracle]

"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]

1. Spread the word: they're all Nat-Cs. n/t

[The Magistrate]

2. One Of Mr. Chesterton's Better Lines, Sir

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and not tried."

[2naSalit]

3. I like that one, Sir.

[mopinko]

4. makes notes.

perfect.

[yonder]

11. +1.

[themaguffin]

5. They are not Christian. It drives me nuts seeing them referred to as Christian

[BlueIdaho]

6. Onward Christian Soldiers?

Just another American misinterpretation of the movement Jesus started.

[Mariana]

10. If they aren't Christian, what are they, exactly?

Are they atheists? Are they secretly followers of some other religion?

[CivicGrief]

15. I don't know,

liars, hypocrites, opportunists, hate-filled sacks of puss, douchebags, slobbering idiots. The list could go on.

[Mariana]

18. One can be all those things and be a Christian, too.

Christians aren't inherently better people than non-Christians.

[themaguffin]

16. The opposite. Whatever name one wants to use. I call them secular anti-Gospel cultists.

[Mariana]

19. The opposite of a Christian is a non-Christian.

So, you think Christians are better people than non-Christians.

[themaguffin]

20. You're missing my point

[Elessar Zappa]

17. They're just conmen.

Sociopaths don’t really believe in anything, religion included. It’s not that they’re atheists, it’s that they’re nothing. They don’t care.

[CivicGrief]

7. Keep Christ in Christianity,

Then we can work on Christmas.

[msfiddlestix]

8. Sorry to bring shocking news, but that Mercy and Compassion meme has always been the supreme myth

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]

9. But in history

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]

12. As one who was raised in a strict, Reagan era, evangelical environment, I assure you that power and

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]

13. flawed, archetypal 'No true Scotsman' fallacy-based article

[TheRealNorth]

21. Well, the Right does not believe that any of us are "Real" Americans....

So is there really anything wrong with questioning their "Christian" beliefs?

[The Magistrate]

23. True, Ma'am

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]

14. These Supreme Court justices sure aren't concerned with mercy and compassion.

They are barbarians.

[Caliman73]

22. Everyone wants to see the "best" in their chosen religion/ideology/etc...

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.

[ck4829]

24. Christian Nation