Just for some context here. In the US, Christianity is everyday, more an identity than a religion. The “evangelicals” that support Trump overwhelmingly don’t attend services, don’t read the Bible, and don’t pray unless they’re in trouble. The evangelical movement has been cooped by the Republican party so thoroughly, that there isn’t much difference between conservative politics and Christian belief in the average worshiper’s mind. Christianity is the justification for having power, not the ethic of how to wield it.
I’m not playing “true Scotsman”, or trying to define what a Christian ought to be. I’m just posting this for the people who are mystified at the disconnect between the teachings of Jesus and the support for regressive and hateful politics.
It’s ironic that apotheoses of the individual, so central to modern conservative thought is antithetical to patriotism, faith, and family values.
I’m not playing “true Scotsman”, or trying to define what a Christian ought to be. I’m just posting this for the people who are mystified at the disconnect between the teachings of Jesus and the support for regressive and hateful politics.
I literally got called a communist by family members for actually acting the way they raised me, because apparently its communist to want to care about less well off people than yourself (and we weren’t even doing that well to start with…)
False prophet? He seems more like the epitome of Satan. Except without the intelligence or logic.
Satan gave humans knowledge, while God punished all of humanity for attaining it. Satan wants you to love yourself and do the things that make you happy. God wants you to become an ascetic and live in subjugation to his desires.
Sounds more like the epitome of Yahweh than Satan.
Well I’m not religious and to me all of it is nonsense, so there’s no actual god or satan or jesus. But to me, Satan would be the one who keeps you FROM knowledge and understanding, and the one who fills the world with misinformation.
Any god worth being called a “god” would want you to love yourself and do the things that make you happy. And that is not trump or his followers. They DO want you to live in subjugation to their desires. Call it by whatever name, it is inhumane and to me, it’s insane to want trump back in public office.
The post above you was taking about the biblical Satan (for as much as there is any biblical consensus). Lucifer literally means light bringer, he brought enlightenment to humans and they were eternally punished for it.
Such a sad and disgusting concept, that humans should ever be punished for having gained enlightenment. Another reason I could never accept such horrifying ideas, what sort of god would allow that to be the case. That’s terrible.