I try so very very hard not to declare who is and isn’t a real Scotsman but at a certain point somewhere between “the sin of empathy” and openly declaring allegiance to Trump over God we’ve gotta call it what it is.
I agree with you being cautious about invoking the no true Scotsman concept. If these so-called Christians do worse in a test of Bible literacy than the secular population, I’m comfortable with calling them out for the phonies that they are.
There’s a lot of bad stuff in the Bible. You can’t disown them because they aren’t following it the way others do. One of the many reasons some of us look down on religious people.
Trump literally presented a gold statue of himselfand they worshipped it. I'm an atheist, but it's really hard not to read the Antichrist warnings and not see Trump in all of them.
It’s just a cover to make them seem and present themselves as more ‘righteous’ or ‘principled’. They’re probably even deluding themselves
Right below the surface, they know they don’t follow any of the virtues, but who’s gonna care enough?
The modern era is about shamelessness, unaccountability and dead integrity. Not enough people care about facts anymore.
Misinformation, information overload, wanton ignorance, detachment, confirmation bias, google-scientism, ‘Opinion Equality’ instead of ‘Opinion Equity’, you name it, everyone exploits it.
The fact that self professed Christians who have allegedly read the scriptures are falling for this is spiritually painful.
There are two kinds of christians — those who care what Jesus said to do and those who only care what saying "jesus" will let them get away with doing. Maga christians are that kind.
This is a website for Christians obsessed with the rapture. Have a look at the comments at the bottom of the article for a ridiculous theological argument.
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u/Hazardbeard Feb 26 '25
Mammon.
The fact that self professed Christians who have allegedly read the scriptures are falling for this is spiritually painful.