A Pastors message to white "Christians"

[wnylib]

56. How many of them were *mainstream* Christians

that you said were vile, misogynistic, racist, etc., etc. in your diatribe? How many of the Christian Trump voters were Evangelical, Pentecostal, or from mom and style churches with no denominational identity? How many identify as Christian because they were baptized as infants and then never saw the inside of a church after that?

You contradicted yourself in your post. The heading said that the majority of. Christian voters voted for Trump. But the body of your post said that mainstream Christians are blah, blah, blah. Not the same thing.

The term "mainstream Christian" applies to the old, conventional denominations of Roman Catholic, Greek and Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopal. The largest, main bodies of the last 5 that I identified support separation of church and state. 4 of those 5 support full equality on race/ethnicity, women, and LGBTQ issues.

The Protestant denominations and the Episcopal church have had smaller, conservative groups split off from them over liberal versus conservative views. The larger, liberal churches are mainstream.

Evangelical and Apostolic churches are not a unified body under one denomination. They consist of stand alone and various small groups of churches. Taken individually, they are smaller than mainstream Christian denominations. But, if grouped together, they amount to a very large number. They have been growing, for political reasons, while mainstream Christian denominations have lost members who reject religion in general. But the mainstream churches remain liberal and ready to resist the fascist insanity. Why write them off when we need all the support that we can get? You don't need to join one. You don't need to be religious at all. But you do need to know who they are instead of lumping all Christians under your umbrella of hatred for religion. We might need their help in the near future. Several mainstream churches are ready made organizations that support our issues.