This viral video has people talking about Christianity versus ‘MAGA Christianity’
This viral video has people talking about Christianity versus ‘MAGA Christianity’
“As a Christian, I don't think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” one person wrote in the comments of the video.
“As a Christian, I don't think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” one person wrote in the comments of the video.
Two weeks ago, Jen Hamilton, a nurse with a sizable following on TikTok and Instagram, picked up her Bible and made a video that would quickly go viral.
“Basically, I sat down at my kitchen table and began to read from Matthew 25 while overlaying MAGA policies that directly oppose the character and nature of Jesus’ teachings,” she told HuffPost.
In the comments of the video ― which currently has more than 8.6 million views on TikTok ― many (Christians and atheists alike) applauded Hamilton for using straight Scripture as a way of offering commentary. Others picked a bone with Christians who uncritically support Trump.
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I always laugh when I hear shit like this, there is an old german saying my father taught me. "When there are 9 Nazis at a table, and you go sit with them, there are 10 Nazis at the same table".
If you are sharing the same church with them then you are sharing the same ideology. Start kicking these maga fucks out of your churches and I might start believing you.
30But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 5
They aren't repenting and don't consider themselves sinners.
So Jesus didn't come for them.
Red-Letter Christians is a non-denominational movement within Evangelical Christianity. "Red-Letter" refers to New Testament verses and parts of verses printed in red ink, to indicate the words attributed to Jesus without the use of quotation marks.
The organization was founded by Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne in 2007 with the aim of bringing together evangelicals who believe in the importance of insisting on issues of social justice mentioned by Jesus (in red in some translations of the Bible). They believe Christians should be paying attention to Jesus's words and example by promoting biblical values such as social justice issues. These issues include the fight against poverty, the defense of peace, building strong families, respecting human rights and welcoming foreigners.
Or, you know, Just don't be a dick. It's really not that hard.
It's really not that hard.
It would seem like it's pretty fucking hard.
Everyone I associate with doesn't seem to struggle with it.
Same here, but we're clearly not MAGA Nazi Jackboot crayon munchers eh?
On the other hand, I have known many hard dicks in the past.
LOL, but at least these those can be fun.
Right, don't be that.
Phrasing
Hey @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone, can you please explain to @the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world that people cannot kick these maga fucks out of their churches, or how doing so would be irrelevant, because "No True Scotsman" as per your comment here?
This is the problem. Christians are blamed for not disassociating themselves entirely from MAGA, and when they do and try to state as much the response is "nO tRuE sCoTsMaN!@!!1!".
I can't speak for anyone else, but my disgust for Christianity is separate from its involvement in MAGA (that just adds to it).
Start kicking these maga fucks out of your churches
You say that, but when people start saying these MAGA fucks aren't Christian the only response they get is "No True Scotsman. Anyone who claims they are a Christian is a Christian."
So they aren't free to disassociate from the MAGA fucks and then are vilified for being associated with them. For all we know this nurse's Church has kicked out these MAGA fucks, but the MAGA fucks go to a different unconnected church so this nurse is still accountable for them for some reason.
It's very fucking easy to dissociate from those fuck sticks, you kick them out or you leave. you don't speak to them, you don't tolerate them in any way.
Myself and many people like me have managed it quite easily.
All you are doing is further enabling them with your stupid apologetics horse shit.
It's very fucking easy to dissociate from those fuck sticks, you kick them out or you leave. you don't speak to them, you don't tolerate them in any way.
And people do that, but they still call themselves Christian, and the MAGAs still call themselves Christian as well. Then some idiot that doesn't understand the "No True Scotsman" Fallacy thinks they're a genius for saying "you're both Scottish, therefore I'm going to hold you accountable for everything they do!"
They will never kick out a donor. As long as they keep tossing cash or checks into the donation plate, then they will accept them with open arms.
There are more than one church.
The kid said “churches”. It’s right there.
But it was a generalization all the same. Who says there are MAGAists in the church of the person who commented that one can't be Christian and MAGA?
Grammar. I can’t parse what you are trying to say, but I am going to guess that it is a defence of Paulism.
Sorry, English, as you probably understood, is not my first language. But I think my idea is quite simple: asking all Christians to eject the MAGA from their churches is like asking all Muslims to eject terrorists from their mosques, or all Jews to stop supporting the Gaza genocide. A lot already do, so that demand makes no sense, and is just bigotry.
So, when someone posts: “As a Christian, I don't think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” answering saying that all people eating with Nazis are Nazis makes no sense and is bigotry, as the author of the comment doesn't necessarily prays with people supporting Trump. They even probably doesn't.
This is a terrible statement on ethics, or an excellent condemnation of organized faith under authority.
You can choose a mosque or church or temple, or choose not to associate at all where the common practice is to include unrepentant authoritarians. This does not require you to abandon your core beliefs.
The basic lesson of the 20th century, for all humanity, is to tolerate all behaviour except the oppressive and, ironically, the intolerant.
I'm sorry, my English must suck quite more than I knew: my message is in favour of kicking the oppressive and intolerant. The thing I oppose is to consider by default that the Christian who published the Tik Tok comment tolerated the MAGA Christian, when they probably didn't.
is like asking all Muslims to eject terrorists from their mosques, or all Jews to stop supporting the Gaza genocide
Both of those are perfectly reasonable things to ask.
Members of the Presbyterian Church are supposed to kick people out of a Baptist Church?
In English, “you” can refer to an individual or a group.
Apply the group in this context. Each member of a group taking care of their individual mandate of responsibility is collective action.
So no, to your question, no-one meant that.
So if this nurse's Church doesn't welcome Nazi's then they're good and not to be vilified? How do we know that isn't the case?
That’s not logical, nobody but you is saying that.
"So if this nurse's Church doesn't welcome Nazi's then they're good and not to be vilified" is not logical?
Even if their church doesn't welcome Nazi's it's still logical for them to be vilified?
And yet all of them are full of bastards.