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How come Republicans are the most fervent Christians? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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[Disclaimer] - I am not an American and I consider myself atheist, I am Caucasian and born in a pre-dominantly Christian country.

Based on my limited knowledge of Christianity, it is all about social justice, compassion and peace.

And I was always wondering how come Republicans are perceiving themselves as devout Christians while the political party they support is openly opposing those virtues and if this doesn't make them hypocrites?

For them the mortal enemy are the lefties who are all about social justice, helping the vulnerable and the not so fortunate and peace.

Christianity sounds to me a lot more like socialist utopia.

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[-] jobby@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

He was like Santa Claus for the masses at the time.

Look, there are some basic precepts of New Testament Christian thought (don’t be an asshole) that are good things. It gets rather muddled quickly after you mall be away from that.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, like how scientology has some good stuff in it like try to improve yourself and the world but then they force a path that doesn't lead in that direction and use it all as an excuse to take money from you.

The first thing we really know about the early church is Paul walking around collecting money and telling people things they wanted to hear, like you don't need to chop off your foreskin to get saved - and saved from the horrors of an event they very clearly taught was coming in their lifetime.

How they managed to keep such an obvious scam going for almost two thousand years is honestly the most impressive miracle

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