(July 28, 2017 at 12:03 pm)Drich Wrote:(July 28, 2017 at 10:56 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: 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?
what exposure do you have with american christian? what the fake news says? their double coverage of the westbrough baptists and the none existant coverage of everyone else? You know the WBB are a family congregation and a neighbor right? Yet every other church who sits hundreds to thousands to mega churches who seat 10,000+ with multiple sermons every sunday and all of their works are completely non existent in the mainstream media. So why would you think, you would think any different of anyone else. You have poisoned the well of ALL american Christians based on the crazy stuff they put on the news.
The exposure I have to US Christians is through the media, not fake news but the news news, or is opposition to abortion not Christian led, is the desire to knowingly teach incorrect science not Christian led, is the oppression of non-typically gendered people not spearheaded by Christians.
Is the suppression of atheists not Christian led?
You know that it genuinely is the religious lobby in America that actively seek to do evil and oppress.
In a September 1994 plenary speech to the Christian Coalition national convention, Rev. D. James Kennedy said that "true Christian citizenship" involves an active engagement in society to "take dominion over all things as vice-regents of God." Kennedy's remarks were reported in February 1995 by sociologist and journalist Sara Diamond, who wrote that Kennedy had "echoed the Reconstructionist line."
Its with views like this that you end up with a Trump presidency.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
