Republican support and the role of declining church attendance

[Maraya1969]

14. Evangelicals believe that they are going to Heaven and everyone is going to Hell

so they consider themselves "The chosen" I've seen bumper stickers saying, "Not perfect but forgiven" or something like that.

The idea is once you say the prayer that you ask for forgiveness and profess Jesus is you savior then you have a permanent seat in heaven and nothing that you do afterward can change that. Most try to work to become "better Christians but the whole "Do good so you can get into heaven" thing like in the Catholic church is gone.

I have heard born again Christians say things like they are going to heaven so other things like being a good Christian don't matter. When you consider who the father of all this is, Martin Luther, it explains a lot. He was a horrible anti-Semite with a bunch of obsessive problems who had an abusive father who never accepted him and he never felt he was forgiven enough at confession. So this concept of "Just believe" was something that fit right into his pathology.

They also separate themselves and feel superior. "The believers" as they call themselves. Even when my nephew was having a problem with speech as a child I remember my SIL saying they wanted to find a Christian speech therapist. And now my other nephew is a Christian therapist. They all get home schooled and the parents make sure they go to Christian colleges and marry other Christians. So all these "Chosen ones" continue to create new 'Chosen ones"