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You’re 100% right. There’s a shift occurring in America right now, and they’re definitely on the losing side. I’m religious, happily so, and grew up as such. I was raised in a Republican household. But whereas everyone at my family church liked Trumpism from the beginning, I saw it for what it was- a sham, hateful, and a complete flaunting of our faith.
I even spoke in church one Sunday (I was a Christian Ministries minor in college, I spoke several times to fill in when the main preacher was gone) about how dangerous and un-Christian Trump’s view on immigrants was- the Bible teaches us to welcome the alien and the stranger, to love our enemies as ourselves.
But all that fell on deaf ears, and as they went further right, I found I was actually on the left. It was really weird, I never changed my views, they definitely went further right after Trump won the primaries. Either they were suppressing what they always thought and he emboldened them or they fell to peer pressure from the ones who yelled really loud, idk, but that’s what happened.
Personally, I’d much rather leave my family church, vote Democrat, and actually keep the teachings of Jesus by loving my neighbor than be a hateful, ignorant Republican who shows up every Sunday to be fake for a few hours.
Comment by ShapShip at 24/05/2021 at 17:37 UTC
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Trump literally got on stage at a prayer breakfast and said that he never asked God for forgiveness. And no Christian there had a problem with that! I'm not a gatekeeper at all but like... isn't one of the prerequisites for being saved that you have to ask the Lord for His forgiveness?
American Christians will deny that Obama believes in Jesus but then hold up Trump as their representative. Whatever, if they want Trump to be the face of American Christianity they can have him
Comment by [deleted] at 24/05/2021 at 17:41 UTC
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I don't exactly know how to describe it but that tends to happen a lot. With the kicker (the part that pushes people away) is just how horrible it can get. Kind of feels like there's a built in horrible level we human beings have. Where we're ok with a certain amount of horribleness but only to a point. And when that breaks we tend to start leaning in the other direction. Asking questions we've never asked before and doing so spreads.
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I would imagine it works the other way round too. Where if a person is too nice for too long. They start to do the same or similar kind of change. Dunno about this last part though. But yeah. Sorry you had to go through that. Wish people could spot bs faster.