If you take your faith even the slightest bit seriously you will not or cannot possibly vote for a democrat no matter how bad it may get.
This is a seriously disingenuous comment at best. There’s clearly a problem within a lot of christian congregations when it comes to nationalistic ideology, but to suggest that any sort of faith forces you to vote against democratic politicians is wildly inaccurate. In just my firsthand experience with those that truly practice what Christianity teaches(helping the poor, sick, hungry, etc.), I see a left-leaning majority. So I would argue its the opposite. Those that practice their faith rather than just attending church and virtue signaling within their community tend to vote for progressive policy that enact social programs for the disadvantaged members of society.
You obviously don’t live in the south. They vote for Republicans like people who rally for their favorite football team.
No matter how horrible Republicans are, religious people vote for them because they are the god party and Democrats don’t talk about it, so clearly they hate God.
This is how they think and church leaders make sure to pass on political propaganda in church to get more people to vote Republican.
It’s a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys… it’s bleak down there…
We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they’ve swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn’t a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.
Seriously… if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature… but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity… there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.
I broadly agree with you, but I think the above comment is saying that in the context of what the right wing media pushes
Like, there are some groups for whom religion is less about the teachings and more about in-group mentality, and fox etc have successfully weaponised that and made Republicanism a central tenet of the in-group
It’s not a universal thing by any means, but it has been part of the fox agenda
This is a seriously disingenuous comment at best. There’s clearly a problem within a lot of christian congregations when it comes to nationalistic ideology, but to suggest that any sort of faith forces you to vote against democratic politicians is wildly inaccurate. In just my firsthand experience with those that truly practice what Christianity teaches(helping the poor, sick, hungry, etc.), I see a left-leaning majority. So I would argue its the opposite. Those that practice their faith rather than just attending church and virtue signaling within their community tend to vote for progressive policy that enact social programs for the disadvantaged members of society.
You obviously don’t live in the south. They vote for Republicans like people who rally for their favorite football team.
No matter how horrible Republicans are, religious people vote for them because they are the god party and Democrats don’t talk about it, so clearly they hate God.
This is how they think and church leaders make sure to pass on political propaganda in church to get more people to vote Republican.
That’s 1/4 of the United States. That hardly warrants such a broad statement.
It’s a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys… it’s bleak down there…
We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they’ve swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn’t a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.
Seriously… if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature… but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity… there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.
Sir, this is the internet, not everybody lives in the derp south, you gotta contextualize things for the rest of us
I broadly agree with you, but I think the above comment is saying that in the context of what the right wing media pushes
Like, there are some groups for whom religion is less about the teachings and more about in-group mentality, and fox etc have successfully weaponised that and made Republicanism a central tenet of the in-group
It’s not a universal thing by any means, but it has been part of the fox agenda