And the infuriating thing for me is this: When I embraced my Pagan side, I took alot of my Christian beliefs with me, especially the parts about how we need to treat people. So it's not like I don't know about Christianity or what it means to be a Christian. I do. And I take that benchmark and I compare it to the actions of our leaders and the Right wing who repeatedly say that they are informed by Christian values and nearly every time I do, a game show style buzzer goes off in my head, indicating that their deeds vs words are "incorrect". And HOW they are incorrect and WHERE they are incorrect says alot about the type of Christians and Christianity that seems to actually be informing their actions. The actions of our Government are a whole lot more in tune with White Supremacy than they are with what so many of my Christian friends would cite as their values.
Why are they allowed to continue. Whose consent and whose votes do these people have?
Real Christians(tm) need to start taking a much more diligent note of this. I know alot of Christians who will protest that these brats do not speak for "Real Christians". And yet, somehow they get away with saying they do without challenge, on TV even. And yet somehow they have been put into elected positions. And when you check to see *who* elected them, I'll bet you a dollar that it was not Pagans, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, or the Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
It is inevitably people calling themselves Christian who are doing all these things that even my Christian friends say that they hate. And somehow they get elected on what are called "Christian Friendly" platforms.
These bastards need to be challenged, and they need to be voted out and shouted down in our public forums, and that opposition NEEDS to come alot more from the people whom they claim to represent. People like me will always be dismissed as having an "axe to grind" with Christianity (even tho I can co-exist with Christian neighbors just fine and don't even mind too much that I live right on the doorstep of a church) It's Christians who NEED to be speaking up about the Domininionist Movement and challenging it's relevance in an egalitarian country. And sadly, that's only happening in dribs and drabs.
So thank you for stating that this in not YOUR Christianity. (It means alot to me to count you as Friend) Do yourself and the world a favor and encourage as many Christians as you can to do the same.
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And the infuriating thing for me is this:
When I embraced my Pagan side, I took alot of my Christian beliefs with me, especially the parts about how we need to treat people. So it's not like I don't know about Christianity or what it means to be a Christian.
I do. And I take that benchmark and I compare it to the actions of our leaders and the Right wing who repeatedly say that they are informed by Christian values and nearly every time I do, a game show style buzzer goes off in my head, indicating that their deeds vs words are "incorrect".
And HOW they are incorrect and WHERE they are incorrect says alot about the type of Christians and Christianity that seems to actually be informing their actions. The actions of our Government are a whole lot more in tune with White Supremacy than they are with what so many of my Christian friends would cite as their values.
Why are they allowed to continue. Whose consent and whose votes do these people have?
Real Christians(tm) need to start taking a much more diligent note of this. I know alot of Christians who will protest that these brats do not speak for "Real Christians". And yet, somehow they get away with saying they do without challenge, on TV even. And yet somehow they have been put into elected positions. And when you check to see *who* elected them, I'll bet you a dollar that it was not Pagans, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, or the Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
It is inevitably people calling themselves Christian who are doing all these things that even my Christian friends say that they hate. And somehow they get elected on what are called "Christian Friendly" platforms.
These bastards need to be challenged, and they need to be voted out and shouted down in our public forums, and that opposition NEEDS to come alot more from the people whom they claim to represent. People like me will always be dismissed as having an "axe to grind" with Christianity (even tho I can co-exist with Christian neighbors just fine and don't even mind too much that I live right on the doorstep of a church) It's Christians who NEED to be speaking up about the Domininionist Movement and challenging it's relevance in an egalitarian country.
And sadly, that's only happening in dribs and drabs.
So thank you for stating that this in not YOUR Christianity. (It means alot to me to count you as Friend) Do yourself and the world a favor and encourage as many Christians as you can to do the same.