cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21420175
All the good christians died a long time ago, the ones left are performative.
So weird. Christian nationalism isn’t the thing I fear most in American politics, but as a Christian myself I definitely hate it more than anything else in the American political landscape.
Someone once posted that rather than calling it Christian Nationalism, we should call it Nationalist Christianity, because it has a convenient and easy to remember abbreviation: Nat.C.
“We are the last bit of a republic, of the free world,”
Worlds a big place, lady.
It’s a stupid religion and belief system.
This is just another example of why.
It’s right there in the ten commandments, which I’d like to remind you has other legit bangers that still work in these modern times like “thou shalt not kill” :
Exodus 20:3-5 King James Version
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
What’s funny is the decalogue is likely borrowed from what is commonly called the “ritual commandments” of Exodus 34, which are explicitly stated to be the 10 commandments in the Hebrew Bible (despite tradition calling the decalogue the 10 commandments) and includes such bangers as “sacrifice your firstborn son” and “in fact make lots of sacrifices to me”
the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) a growing charismatic movement led by a loose network of apostles and prophets who believe Christians are called to take over the government.
That’s wonderful. And the article only gets worse from there.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
-C. S. Lewis
