"Not in it to win it" writer finally saying what all of us on DU know.

[Ocelot II]

12. The evangelicals - don't tar all Christians with the same brush - have given up

traditional Christian doctrine in favor of right-wing political doctrine; you might say they are apostates or heretics. They've discovered, or at least believe, that politics can give them the power to make everybody be like them. Why do they want that? Because there is a particular arrogance in that strain of Christianity which causes believers to assume that the only true, Godly way to live is their way, and that unless you are like them you are not Godly. That leads to the conclusion that those who are not Godly must either be converted or, if that's not possible, eliminated, because ungodly elements must not infect America, the only country approved by God. So everyone who's not like them - white, straight, conservative, evangelical Christian - and can't be made to be like them, has to go. This mentality is what justifies laws biased against PoC, gay people, most recently trans people, women who can't be made to reproduce, liberals, non-white immigrants, Jews, Muslims, etc., etc. If the laws don't eliminate or crush those populations, violence against them is just fine.

None of this is justified by the teachings of Jesus, in whose name they pretend to act, but Jesus doesn't figure into the analysis at all. The f*ckers just want to get rid of us so they can run things. It's nothing but a power trip thinly disguised as religion.