Former PresidentĀ Donald Trumpās latest ventureĀ selling BiblesĀ has sparked the fury of Christians.
Trump, who became the presumptiveĀ RepublicanĀ nominee earlier in March, posted a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the āGod Bless the USA Bible,ā inspired by country singer Lee Greenwoodās patriotic ballad.
āHappy Holy Week! Letās Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible,ā Trump wrote in the post, alongside a link to a website selling the book for $59.99. It came a day afterĀ Trump seemingly compared his legal plight to Jesus Christās persecution.
And it comes as he faces mounting legal bills while fighting four criminal indictments and a series of civil charges while running to reclaim the White House. On Monday, a New York appeals court agreed to hold off on collecting the more than $454 million he owes following a civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.
But the move has sparked the ire of Christians.
Christians isnāt a monolithic entity, the way the headline pretends. Thereās liberal Christians and conservative Christians. Hell, thereās an LGBTQ church down the street from here with a trans pastor and a church trauma support group.
i.e. Not all Christians love what Trump has done and not all Christians hate that heās selling bibles.
So called āliberal Christiansā just enable the fascist ones.
ACAB.
How?
Because if it was all bad it would just be abandoned. It is like smoking tobacco vs consuming botulism. Each time you smoke a tiny bit of damage is done and a lot is pleasure is delivered every time you consume botulism you get very ill and risk dying. Thatās why people arenāt consuming 20 capsules of botulism a day.
The liberal Christianity tried to offer a different route. A Christianity that doesnāt depend on bigotry. A Christianity not supported by the texts or thoughts of the faith for the past 20 centuries because they are doing that they are offering cover for the the branches aligned with Christianity. They are holding out the possibility of reform. If they donāt exist people would see Christianity for what it is, and not what in theory it could be.
The problem with your analogy is either the people of the religion need to view it as botulism or the vast majority of society needs to view those people as botulism.
The people of the religion are at best going to see it as tobacco. I hate tobacco; smoking isnāt pleasurable, it just makes me feel sick. But there are people who love it. You and I may see their religion as devoid of anything good, but to them itās good. They are often born into it and want their religion with the negatives you and I see. It has nothing to do with liberal Christians.
And it is not liberal Christians that make it so we donāt reach the threshold of the vast majority of society not tolerating the bad Christians. The bad Christians are a sizeable enough part of society on their own to guarantee that. And as a society, weāre fairly geographically sorted. So even if they were only 5% of the population, theyād still often be surrounded by like-minded individuals and be able to wield political power. Plus, theyāre still people. Even the most evil people generally have some redeeming qualities.
People forcing them all into one box enable the fascist ones. Anytime someone says āthatās fascism and not Christianityā theyāre met with screeches of ānO tRuE sCoTsMaN!ā
I can back up my arguments with their holy texts as well as the Greek thought most of it was stolen from. At its core it is a fascist faith. Beginning with Platoās blueprint for a spiritual dictatorship ruled by mystics who donāt have to explain themselves, to Jesus declaring that his path was the only way, to the City of God telling us that torture in this life was better than hell and thus justified.
None of that explains how Christians who say āFascism is badā are enabling fascists.
Do you know that an enabler doesnāt have to be intentionally doing it?
Do you know for someone to be an enabler there should be some evidence/argument for it other than āyouāre speaking against the thing Iām accusing you of enablingā?
I spelled it out. Quite clearly. Donāt waste my time.