When did being a Christian equal being right wing?

[Zoomie1986]

49. Might be because the religion has a centuries-long history

Of supporting right-wing policies, rulers and governments, particularly of the autocratic variety.

You do realize that this is the religion that came to power by aligning itself with an autocratic leader. Do you think Constantine ruled by committee? Come on.

It's the same religion that supported the policy known as the Divine Right of Kings to rule as absolute authorities, well into at least the 19th century. Not only the Catholic church supported that, before you go there. So did the Church of England and the Lutherans and the Calvinist, along with their many offshoots.

The religion pretty much provided the 'moral' underpinnings that launched the Atlantic slave trade. Do look up how papal bulls made that okay. Or how an entire Protestant sect came into being to justify slavery in the US.

It's the religion that repeatedly either ignored, supported or outright carried out mistreatment of Jews that included enslavement, stealing children from their families (as late as 1858), forcing Jews to place their children into monasteries and convents, legally robbing them blind with ridiculous taxes and asset seizures, denying them the right to live or travel where they chose, and don't forget the torture and even murder. For centuries. Those are all right-wing actions based on right-wing policies that Christians and their clergy supported or outright took part in.

In the 20th century and beyond, the religion never met a right wing autocracy it didn't like, whether in Europe, Latin America, Asia or Africa. During the 1940s, they supported Hitler's Nazi Germany, Mussolini in Italy, and the Ustaše regime in Croatia. They supported Stalin after he started rebuilding the Orthodox churches. They supported Diem in South Vietnam. They supported the autocratic (and often murderous) regimes of Pinochet, Somoza, Montt-Rios, Duarte, Trujillo, Stroessner and on and on and on.

Now here were are in 2024. and tens of millions of Catholics and Protestants are agitating to install right-wing autocracy in this country, often with the full backing of their clergy. Do you see any other religious bloc showing so much support for right wing policies and actions?

People reveal who they are by what they say and do. Maya Angelou was right: When people tell you who they are, believe them.

I didn't think we needed to explain that people who aren't right wingers don't do things that right wingers do. If you don't want the religion equaled with the right wing, then make sure that so many in the religion don't, you know, behave like right-wingers.

I don't know how much plainer one can state the obvious.