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Evangelicals Are Destroying America
- Thread starter Sky Chief
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When I first turned 18, I voted Republican. I come from a family of conservatives. I don't consider myself a bigot then. But I got out of that bubble and listened to other perspectives and ideas. I bet a lot of members here experienced the same thing. We voted Republican because we didn't know any better, not because we're assholes.
Many evangelicals grew up in that bubble and never escaped. Those same people are too close-minded to realize everything their family and friends has been telling them their whole life is BS.
Many evangelicals grew up in that bubble and never escaped. Those same people are too close-minded to realize everything their family and friends has been telling them their whole life is BS.
Their influence has rather abated actually. It only looks like the opposite because their one of the President's most reliable voting blocs. For the record, I'm Christian, although I'm not evangelical. Many old school evangelicals, the Moral Majority types, have recently mentioned that their movement is a failure. I personally think they're missing the gospel. And their pro-life message is rather limited to fetuses only. Not women, poor people, and the oppressed.
That doesn't give them a pass... especially when a loved one confronts them about it, makes sound arguments against their views, and yet they stay the course because God.
It doesn't.
I just don't want this forum to demonize everyone who votes Republican. It's fine with Republican politicians and conservative news, but many voters just don't know any better.
I would consider it more about power, and using the state to enforce that power. Hate is a large influence, but not the end goal or the motivator.
Cant agree more, jesus would bitchslap the fuck out of them if he wqw still alive
Evangelicals are one democratic administration away from becoming American Jihadis. They're on the same path as religious extremists that plague the Muslim world, using their conveniently cherry-picked religious text to justify the subjugation of the "other" and atrocities by their own hands.
Democrat.
Black evangelicals have concerns and issues about things like abortion, gay rights and so on like all the other evangelicals, but those are not voting issues for the 95% of them. They still vote on civil rights, union rights, and community matters and roll their eyes at stuff in the D platform that they may not be excited about.
God I wish I could like and favorite a post on resetera
Anyone saying evangelicals are destroying America needs to brush up on their history.
Pretty much my mother and sister. They refuse to vote republican due to the platform overall despite not being proponents of abortion.
Pretty much my mother and sister. They refuse to vote republican due to the platform overall despite not being proponents of abortion.
Religious dogma— particularly from monotheistic religions— that's allowed into legislation is the downfall of any society.
The idea of a mega church would have made Jesus throw up in the back of his throat.
Correct. Black Evangelicals don't vote for the GOP in any major way.
And this quote from the mouth of Barry Goldwater of all people.
Should tell you all the clear and present danger we are in with the white Christian taliban at the wheel.
Fucking hilarious.
I love how she starts holding hands and all, all spiritual and reverent and then is like "oh fuck nah, gotta get theatrical, fuck your hands"
All you have to do is look at the history of the American Evangelical movement and where it came from to know what's going on there. It really started to pollute politics in the 70s with Jerry Falwell's group and their "Pro-Life" crusade post Roe v Wade which was used as a lightning rod to get people whipped into a frenzy.
For what it's worth, "evangelicals" outside America are exactly that. Including myself and pretty much every other Christian I've spoken to. Gun toting, healthcare hating evangelicals are again, a uniquely American phenomenon.