I am confused by American christians

[Astonished]

Being British the Christians around me, though few, seem to be overall a rather harmless bunch, mostly good intentioned who keep themselves to themselves, help the needy and champion causes that actually benefit people generally.

This is the sort of Christian that I don't mind, I think they are wrong but they aren't much trouble.

Now this seems to be the opposite of American Christians who blaze around trying to be the biggest arseholes they can be. (they have to a certain extent spread this over here but only in tiny patches).

What gives?

Why is being a huge dick part of the Christian US agenda?

There's this sense of entitlement that's just kind of always been around, since Manifest Destiny. Like because they belong to the 'chosen people' (because they don't read their own holy books and readily dismiss the Old Testament) the world owes them everything, and they are completely, unquestionably, 100% right about everything and to even suggest there might be a problem with this is akin to pissing on their shoes in front of everyone they know.

Being the majority and having so much political power helps maintain this sense of superiority. When you think you've got the most powerful being conceivable in your corner, well, you know how power corrupts, and absolutely power corrupts absolutely and all that, so even the delusion of having that power is massively corrupting. They also have this idea that anyone not quite like them (primarily the white male demographic) is more of a piece of property than a person, ergo their stances on women's rights and their insistence that they can do whatever the happy hell they want with their kids.

So yeah, that's my two cents. Just a lingering result of an extreme wave of indoctrination that hasn't slowed down since.