'Exceedingly dangerous': Why the rise of Christian nationalism is 'entirely out of our control'
'Exceedingly dangerous': Why the rise of Christian nationalism is 'entirely out of our control'
Radicalized fanatics who do not fear death and hate anyone who doesn’t believe what they believe and those who do not look like them.
Domestic terrorists.
And the "reasonable" religious people legitimize religion as a valid idea in societies.
Other than my religion, there are no 'reasonable' religions. My ghost is better than your ghost.
According to this logic any ideology, world view, political leaning, or even opinion on beef stroganov is invalid because there is radical people advocating for it...
You belief in free market capitalism? Well fuck you, because you are just enabling Elon Musk. You believe in fair wages and social security? Are you trying to legitimize Stalin?! Oh you think black people shouldn't be murder at random by cops? You are just advocating dor the Black Panthers now!
This is not an argument. You just invalidate anyone having a position on anything by this.
Despite what they tell you they most certainly fear death. One dead insurrectionist put down Jan 6. There's a reason they need their emotional support weapons.
The real issue is that their fear is entirely illigitimate, up until they threaten the rest of us, and because they're scared rats in their own self made corner that they pushed themselves into out of cowardice and fear, it will be a self fulfilling prophecy that they lash out against their imagined enemies.
These are the most dangerous people in the country. These are often the ones who shoot kids through doors and cars. These are who storm government buildings and plan kidnappings of politicians. We’re pretty fucked.
Indeed. Really any group consisting of people whose zealous beliefs are formed irrationally is a group that has the potential for doing great harm—to others, to themselves, to society, to the environment, etc.
Malicious ignorance is the real pandemic.
A interesting strawman.
An uninteresting display of stupidity
Err... that isn't a strawman. A strawman is where the argument consists of misrepresenting the opposition's belief or argument in a way that is much easier to attack than the actual argument.
A good explanation with some good examples can be found here: https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/straw-person.html
interesting strawman.
I feel like this is one of those words that's been used so much on the internet that it's lost all meaning.
I have an ex who's oji-cree. She went from embracing her roots to going full christian. Never understood it.
At least with her traditional stuff there was a connection to reality.
Most religions are nutty. Very few own it and say "it's just for the lesson". The only one I can think of is Hinduism. But confisionism or toaism exist as well, but different formats.
But I digress. The point is that people that are religious aren't inherently bad. A big percent of the world believes in religion. It's when they start using as a reason to oppress people do we run into issues.
The christian talaban will be coming.
What do you mean, "Will be coming?" They've been murdering abortion providers for decades.
I mean an armed insurrection
It's out of our control because we're powerless to change it. We're powerless to change it because we pretty much only elect Christians.
Christian nationalists hate like they are trying to make the world end before the boomers die off.
They’re literally praying the world ends while they’re still around, since something like 10 generations of their ilk have been excitingly promising and threatening each other with that. Oh my gosh! This is it for sure this time. Jesus is coming. The unfortunate thing is working and living with people who literally think what they do today doesn’t matter because the world is ending really soon. Obviously, that encourages very short term thinking, and these people are too indoctrinated to notice “the rapture” didn’t happen the last 155 times someone predicted it. Even worse, the more dire the news, the more excited they are because it means Jesus can’t be far now.
This is my entire family, and the way I was raised. It's fucking disgusting.
The rapture in 2011 didn't happen because a few days before it began, we lost Randy Savage. The Macho Man stopped fighting and ascended to heaven. But he didn't stop fighting out of weakness. Obviously not. The Macho Madness transcended this plane of existence to stop the rapture. His last words should be carved into Mt Everest. No Rapture On My Watch Jesus! I'm Coming For You! He hit Jesus with a flying elbow and saved us all!
Proof: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/22/article-1389475-0C33B94300000578-599_634x680.jpg
One of my most politically frightening moments was when I (from Europe) was watching a "documentary" about the US. They showed a senator who firmly believed the rapture would come very soon.
If a person believes that, how are they in a position to make thoughtful long-term decisions? Which often not only affect their own country, but countries around the world, for decades to come?
It was a lasting moment of scare and despair. God bless you (smirk), drive out these demons.
Most ansird thing about it for me is that their shotty behaviour before the rapture means they'll all go to hell.
But i guess reading and understanding the bible arent evangelical qualities, when they just get some TV scammer "preach" to them.
I've always thought this, not about Christian nationalists, but about boomers in general. Such a selfish generation where they can't imagine a world without themselves, so they want to make sure it ends for everyone else too.
Armageddon FOMO
They are succeeding