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The Fanatical Mindset of the Religious Right
6 Jun 2022 3:23 am
What had long been apparent to me, is becoming increasingly apparent to many observers, journalists, and even some theologians. That the religious right has grown increasingly DIVORCED from any semblance of the "Christianity" they profess to believe in.
Yes, they'll trot on down to their places of worship, and piously cant scriptured notions such as "love thy neighbor" and "blessed be the meek" but don't think that an ever increasing number of them BELIEVE in it... not one bit.
Because many of them have replaced those sentiments with those of hate and intolerance for whomever and WHATever they perceive as "other."
Some introspectives re the above:
How evangelicals abandoned Christianity — and became "conservatives" instead | Salon.com
"Evangelical leaders have focused their agenda on protecting things they feel entitled to, while focusing the attention of their followers on what they define as the enemies of God. That fear of God's enemies has allowed billions of dollars of donations to flow into the hands of religious hypocrites.
They have convinced millions of Christians that the enemies of God are people who live south of the border, who are coming for their guns, their jobs, their property, their health insurance, their taxes and even their families. Trump tapped masterfully into the fear planted by evangelical leaders in the hearts of their followers.
In the end, millions of Christians have abandoned their faith for a narrow-minded political ideology."
Yes, they'll trot on down to their places of worship, and piously cant scriptured notions such as "love thy neighbor" and "blessed be the meek" but don't think that an ever increasing number of them BELIEVE in it... not one bit.
Because many of them have replaced those sentiments with those of hate and intolerance for whomever and WHATever they perceive as "other."
Some introspectives re the above:
How evangelicals abandoned Christianity — and became "conservatives" instead | Salon.com
"Evangelical leaders have focused their agenda on protecting things they feel entitled to, while focusing the attention of their followers on what they define as the enemies of God. That fear of God's enemies has allowed billions of dollars of donations to flow into the hands of religious hypocrites.
They have convinced millions of Christians that the enemies of God are people who live south of the border, who are coming for their guns, their jobs, their property, their health insurance, their taxes and even their families. Trump tapped masterfully into the fear planted by evangelical leaders in the hearts of their followers.
In the end, millions of Christians have abandoned their faith for a narrow-minded political ideology."