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In reply to the discussion: Why do conservative evangelical Christians admire and worship trump? [View all]Happy Hoosier
(9,702 posts)45. I mean, in my experience....
Most Conservative Evangelicals use relgion as a prop. Most are unfamiliar with the actual texts of their religion, mostly knowing isolated passages and whatever their pastor tells them it says.
I mean, how many conservative evangelicals are even aware how much the 4 Gospels disagree with each other? Or that scholars, even Christian scholars, believe that a large amount of the "pailing letters" were not, in fact written by Paul at all.
They use fragments of Christian doctrine to justify their world view, rather than shaping their world view by what their religious texts would suggest.
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Because when you get down to it, they worship power, especially superficial displays of power...
JHB
Nov 2022
#4
As a non-Christian, from what I observe is that many of those self-identified Christians who follow
JohnSJ
Nov 2022
#7
Many Christians are horrible people and they have done horrible things throughout history
JI7
Nov 2022
#16
I've yet to meet an Evangelical "Christian" that isn't a searing miserable asshole
tenderfoot
Nov 2022
#49
The deal is that once they kill off all the people they hate, they can then exhibit
brewens
Nov 2022
#34
His supporters shoot and kill a bunch of folks at Synagogues and LGBTQ Nightclubs
maxrandb
Nov 2022
#37