Damned Christians

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Well, two more years and her son will be allowed to take it off.

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They are really open about their intentions to create a Christian theocracy: Rep. Lauren Boebert declares that Christians must rise up and remove ungodly leaders from power and replace them with "righteous men and women of God" who realize that the government should be taking orders from the church.

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Christian Radio Host: Rape Victims Who Dress Like “Sluts” Are “Asking For It”

Right-wing Christian radio host Jesse Lee Peterson, who has claimed that it was generally a "big mistake to educate women" and that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have wanted to get raped during the Trump-inspired January 6 insurrection, spent part of yesterday's show literally victim-blaming sexual assault victims:

... If you walk around looking like a slut, in some little tight dress all up your legs, and you get raped, that's your fault. You're asking for it!

You should do it... dress modest... modest... modestly. [Off-mike: Is that how you say it?] Modestly! Then you won't get raped.

One nice lady [on a previous episode] said that rape was for power. It's about power. No it's not! That's another lie that's been told to you. Rape is not about power. Rape is about having sex.

When a man is raping a woman, he's not thinking, "Ooh, I'm about to get power."

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021...ng-for-it/

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WATCH: Preacher with sign saying ‘women belong in the kitchen and not in college’ gets decked by a female student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loO8B8fALsQ

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They are really open about their intentions to create a Christian theocracy: Rep. Lauren Boebert declares that Christians must rise up and remove ungodly leaders from power and replace them with "righteous men and women of God" who realize that the government should be taking orders from the church.

What would a hardened criminal and welfare queen know about righteousness?

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What would a hardened criminal and welfare queen know about righteousness?

It takes all kinds.

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What would a hardened criminal and welfare queen know about righteousness?

It takes all kinds.

Do you even read the posts you choose to comment on or do you simply spew random phrases?!?

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Kent Hovind is going back to jail. This time he'll do 30 days for domestic violence (body-slamming his ex girlfriend)

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021...-violence/

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Good/ real Christianity is a myth

Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'good Christian' abortion meltdown

On Friday, congressional representatives got into a screaming match on the Capitol steps about, among other things, Christianity. High-volume theological disputes aren’t generally illuminating. But this one showed how Christianity remains a moral bedrock of political dispute in this country — and why that’s a bad thing.

“You should practice the basic thing you're taught in church: respect your neighbor,” Dingell shouted. Greene blasted back, “Taught in church, are you kidding me? Try being a Christian and supporting life!" Dingell responded, “You try being a Christian... and try treating your colleagues decently!”

Dingell thinks being a Christian means being neighborly and civil. Greene thinks being a Christian means attacking anyone who supports abortion rights. But they both agree that being a Christian is morally good, and that Christianity is virtuous.

Despite Dingell’s best intentions, the equation of Christianity and goodness buttresses Greene’s white Christian nationalism and the politics of hate and hierarchy that go along with it.

Many of us, though, aren’t Christian, and don’t want to try to be Christian. Just to take one example: Jewish people’s experience of Christian morality has not been universally uplifting, to say the least.

Some will argue that antisemitism is not real Christianity. But you can’t just disavow a couple of thousands years of persecution and hate. And if Christianity equals virtue, where does that leave Jewish people — or Muslims, or atheists, or Buddhists, for that matter?

Of course there are good Christians, as there are good people of every faith, and of no faith. But one of the hallmarks of immoral forms of Christianity is a belief that Christianity can only be good — and that the good can only be Christian.

Sociologist Philip Gorski argued in a 2019 article that evangelical white Christians loved Trump not despite his violent and scabrous language, but precisely because he told them they were better than everyone else. Evangelicals, Gorski said, responded to “Trump’s racialized, apocalyptic, and blood-drenched rhetoric.” That rhetoric harkened back to the Christian language deployed to justify slavery and Native American genocide.

Trump told white evangelical Christians that they had a right and a duty to impose their morality, through force, on others. Marjorie Taylor Greene is following through on a tradition of dispossession and cruelty when she insults abortion supporters or tries to seize control of people’s bodies in the name of a higher morality.

Deb Dingell’s Christianity would seem to be more inclusive — her definition of loving thy neighbor translates politically into policy (same-sex marriage, abortion rights, etc.) that Marjorie Taylor Greene abhors. But nonetheless, it also, inadvertently, reinforces one of the chief tenets of white Christian nationalism — the idea that Christianity has a monopoly on virtue.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is, unfortunately, still a Christian when she spews ugly antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish space lasers. She’s still a Christian when she attacks her colleagues. She’s still a Christian when she tries to force people to give birth because of her own particular convictions about souls and cell clusters. But being a Christian doesn’t make you a good person, just as being a good person doesn’t make you a Christian. When we, including Dingell, accept that, maybe we’ll be closer to defeating the evil, violent and Christian movement of which Greene is a part.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ma...cna1280110

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Christianity's neverending war with books

Wyoming librarians under fire for books about sex, LGBTQ

Books about sex, LGBTQ issues and how to have a baby have public library employees in a deeply conservative Wyoming city facing possible prosecution after angry local residents complained to police that the material is obscene and doesn’t belong in sections for children and teenagers.

For weeks, Campbell County Public Library officials have been facing a local outcry over the books and for scheduling a transgender magician to perform for youngsters, an act canceled amid threats against the magician and library staff.

“It’s really easy to go into the library and look around a little bit and find a filthy book that should not even be in a public library,” said Sisti, pastor of Open Door Church in Gillette. “These books are absolutely appalling.”

https://religionnews.com/2021/10/04/wyom...sex-lgbtq/

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn calls on "God-fearing patriots” to fight in a "spiritual battle" against Dems

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., called on the "American Christian church" to "come out of the shadows" in a campaign ad posted Sunday, imploring "strong, God-fearing patriots" to stand up against the apparent "tyranny" of Democratic Party. 

"If we bend the knee to the Democrats today, our country will be lost forever and our children will never know what freedom is," he said in a video released on Twitter. Cawthorn further called for likeminded believers to join his supporters in the "spiritual battle" unfolding on Capitol Hill. 

he framed himself as a congressional guardian against "the Devil."

"I don't feel an overwhelming sense of darkness as if the Devil has complete dominion of that area," he said of D.C. politics, "because I feel a spiritual battle going on on Capitol Hill."

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/04/rep-mad...inst-dems/