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This viral video has people talking about Christianity versus ‘MAGA Christianity’
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You seem to have missed my point. The Bible is the holy book for Christianity, and because it's clear on things like homophobia and misogyny we can state that Christianity is pro those things. When people say that MAGA Christians are not behaving like real Christians, they are being dishonest and putting a pretty face on an evil thing. Their actions help keep the bronze age bullshit bad people use to justify their behavior around.
I'm very tired of the general societal belief that Christianity is actually good and some people are just doing it wrong. Christianity is bad. Its effects on our society are bad. We would be better off if it (and religion in general) went away.
Even that being true, it's readily apparent that Christians always choose which scriptures to highlight. The fundamentalist ones will say you must take the whole bible or nothing, but that's not how they behave. Not at all.
Let's assume the homophobic translation of Romans 1 is the correct one. Is any given Christian talking about that, or are they talking about being kind to the poor, pointing out the hypocrisy of religious leaders, or that the literal, obvious interpretation of "rich men can't get through the eye of a needle" is the correct one? There's so many scriptures they could be highlighting, and it's conspicuous that they choose to make a homophobic one really, really important to them.
MAGA Christians tend to get very angry if you point this out. The usual responses are along the lines of "you only know a few cherry picked scriptures as talking points" or "you atheists would burn alive if you actually read the bible".
This would be a much easier argument if the Bible were less self-contradictory.
Maybe they do behave like real Christians in that regard, but not in others, which for a religion is enough to not be in line with it, it's not a choose your own adventure