Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by
  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    the jesus you’re talking about is no longer a thing to them. white republican jesus hates poor people, loves guns, and never tips the waitress (because they see NO contradiction in bleating ‘pull yourself up by the bootstraps’ while simultaneously preventing anyone from pulling themselves up by their bootstraps).

    “but how can they just change what jesus is all about?” you might be asking

    the more important question is: when is everyone going to stop assuming that christofascists need anything to make any sense?

    edit: forgot to post the link https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      But also this isn’t a sudden change in doctrine, it’s like a century in the making in its current form, but the groundwork is as old as it being a state religion. Nothing is incapable of being corrupted by the powerful

    • Veraxus@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Thanks for sharing that. This jumped out at me…

      Moore, who has been an outspoken critic of many evangelicals’ embrace of Trump, argues that this has led him to conclude that American evangelical Christianity is now in crisis.

      I’m a millennial who raised in an evangelical home. This isn’t something that is happening “just now” it was this way for decades, if not centuries, before I was ever born.

      I have more than a few memories of pointing out to adults that their politics, speech, and behavior were at odds with scripture, only to be called a heretic to my face, as a kid. They are literally the scribes and pharisees that Jesus rants about for the entirety of Matthew 23.

      I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority of people who call themselves “Christian” are not remotely followers of Jesus, his teaching, or his philosophy. They’ve just stolen his brand for personal gain.