Bpoliticalmemes·Political MemesbyBillonthehill People are strangeView original on lemmy.world411Comments11Reply
IInvertedParallax lemm.ee7Hide 7 repliesSouthern evangelicals love their racism so much they'll sacrifice their Christianity for it in a heartbeat. Nothing surprising about that at all.40Reply
ssomeguy3 replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyThey don't think they sacrificed their Christianity. To them this is Christianity, a means to be superior.17Reply
AnUnusualRelic replylemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesSeen as a European (and although I'm not christian), US evangelicals have nothing in common with christianity. Except maybe the symbolism.7Reply
IInvertedParallax replylemm.ee1Hide 1 replyhttps://www.thearda.com/us-religion/history/timelines/entry?etype=1&eid=18 It's because they schismed specifically to redefine Christianity in terms of pro-slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham was part of it too, as proof that God wanted only White people to dominate all others who were cursed by him forever. It's literally where the nazis got a lot of their stuff from, Hitler mentioned Jim Crow as the model Germany needed to follow in Mein Kampf.7Reply
AnUnusualRelic replylemmy.worldThe more I find out about religion in the US, the more insane it is.4Reply
IInvertedParallax replylemm.eeIt's not unique. Any more than killing jews was unique to nazis. However, in both cases they were the ones to put in the dedication to go professional and take their racial hatred to another level, even to the point of industrializing it.4Reply
A_norny_mousse feddit.org2Hide 2 repliesIf there was a god, she'd never have done that. If I believed in the Bible, I'd say DJT is the very definition of the Antichrist. Not that I believe in Satan either.19Reply
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Southern evangelicals love their racism so much they'll sacrifice their Christianity for it in a heartbeat.
Nothing surprising about that at all.
They don't think they sacrificed their Christianity. To them this is Christianity, a means to be superior.
In their view: "Why else would you be Christian?"
Seen as a European (and although I'm not christian), US evangelicals have nothing in common with christianity. Except maybe the symbolism.
https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/history/timelines/entry?etype=1&eid=18
It's because they schismed specifically to redefine Christianity in terms of pro-slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham was part of it too, as proof that God wanted only White people to dominate all others who were cursed by him forever.
It's literally where the nazis got a lot of their stuff from, Hitler mentioned Jim Crow as the model Germany needed to follow in Mein Kampf.
The more I find out about religion in the US, the more insane it is.
It's not unique.
Any more than killing jews was unique to nazis.
However, in both cases they were the ones to put in the dedication to go professional and take their racial hatred to another level, even to the point of industrializing it.
If there was a god, she'd never have done that.
If I believed in the Bible, I'd say DJT is the very definition of the Antichrist.
Not that I believe in Satan either.
I believe that 33% of people are shit. It explains everything
He forgot rapist. God must have early dementia.