#right wing Christians

[xfinity-war]

Just saw the funniest reply of all time

#for context this guy was defending slavery #while also saying that humans are slaves to Christ? #very weird behavior #Christian twitter #right wing Christians #twitter #mine #casposting

[karadin]

The same right wing who protest against Drag Queens supported this, which is also Drag

#right wing #right wing conservatives #anti lgbtqa #kid beauty pageants #right wing christians #save the children

[inde-60]

#right wing christians #Instagram

[secondbeatsongs]

#memes #personal #id in alt text #is this anything? #this idea sprang to life in my mind and I had to make it #just like all of my other ideas #oh - just in case #context: #this is a phrase commonly associated with right-wing christian stuff #usually plastered on t-shirts featuring the american flag and the christian cross #but. my brain has other thoughts on this

[shutinthenutouse]

#Politics #fascist #GOP #right wing terrorism #right wing extremism #gop fascists #christofascists #evangelicals #conservative christians #white supremacists #maga #republicans #stupid people #Republicans are Fascist #Vote Blue #Get Out The Vote #Vote Democratic #conservatives #republican #far right #rethuglicans #magats #Roe V Wade #Supreme Court #Body Autonomy #My Body My Choice #Choice #Abortion Rights

[athingofvikings]

The guilty verdict for the Jews has already been decided, let the trial begin.

The prosecution will deliver their evidence to the court of public opinion.

The Jews killed Jesus, says the Christian. See, it says here in our holy book, written by people looking to separate themselves from the Jews and grow closer to the Romans. Pilate washes his hands and the Jews take responsibility for killing him.

The Jews are responsible for genociding the White Race, says the White Nationalist. See here, it says so in Mein Kampf and other writings by people who hate the Jews. They plan on wiping us out and replacing White people.

The Jews are responsible for genociding the Palestinians, says the Antizionist. See here, it says so in news published by Hamas, who are innocent freedom fighters who just want to kill all of the Jews everywhere in the world, as is their right. They plan on wiping all of the Palestinians out, which is why they've killed only a tiny fraction in months of intense fighting.

The jury convenes and returns the verdict, which was already decided upon.

The Jews may not speak in their own defense, of course. Who would be interested in hearing the words of the guilty?

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #christian antisemitism #right-wing antisemitism #white supremacist antisemitism

[probablyasocialecologist]

Evangelicals imagine their opponents as evangelicals-in-reverse. Instead of surrendering to God and spreading his message, they have surrendered to the power of sin and seek to spread its message. The field of struggle is the mass of confused and misinformed souls who have not yet been offered the chance to accept Christ. In neither case is there any possibility of legitimate disagreement—anyone who is not a member of the evangelical community is either a fool or a demon.

On the political level, this means that there is no reason to respect the democratic will of the people. Thus it is no coincidence that our last two Presidents to enjoy overwhelming evangelical support were also initially installed despite losing the popular vote. Nor is the evangelical focus on the Supreme Court merely a strategic political decision. Evangelicals’ reliance on the antidemocratic aspects of the American constitutional system fits perfectly with their refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the choices and values of anyone outside the evangelical community. After all, those choices and values represent only ignorance and sin. To the extent that they can impose their religious standards on others, evangelicals are saving these people from themselves—and depriving them of their ability to corrupt evangelical children.

Adam Kotsko, The Evangelical Mind

#evangelicalism #right wing #Christianity #usa

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Click on the Source Watch link above and look at the mind numbing list of far right organizations that the Searle Freedom Trust has funded with hundreds of millions in dark money donations. This is just a fraction of the vast right-wing conspiracy that the right-wing Republicans once denied. Right-wing oligarchs have spent billions since the 1960’s to take away your vote, persecute marginalized people, let businesses operate without restrictions, and impose a white Christo-Fascist authoritarian government on us.

This is real. Look at those organizations and how they have worked to replace democracy with corporate/oligarch fascism.

Boycott oligarch companies, vote Democratic, become an activist, resist however you can before Trump can impose Project 2025 on us.

#Searles Freedom Trust #oligarchs #right-wing political foundations #republican assholes #traitor trump #resist #republican values #fascism #white Christian nationalism #VOTE BLUE #VOTE DEMOCRATIC #VOTE BIDEN HARRIS 2024

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

This is real.

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion #conservatives #right wing extremism #christian nationalism

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #religion #christianity #right wing #nationalism #white christian nationalists

[contemplatingoutlander]

As The New Republic reports, “Alito is complaining that people who oppose homosexuality were being unfairly branded as bigots, despite that being a dictionary definition of bigotry.” On Tuesday, agreeing the Court should not take a case, Alito wrote he is “concerned” that a lower court’s reasoning “may spread.” He notes that the lower court “reasoned that a person who still holds traditional religious views on questions of sexual morality is presumptively unfit to serve on a jury in a case involving a party who is a lesbian.” In that case, several jurors who acknowledged they held anti-LGBTQ views were released from serving on the trial. “That holding exemplifies the danger that I anticipated in 'Obergefell v. Hodges' … namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government.'” Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern writes, “Alito suggests that a trial court violates the free exercise and equal protection clauses when it allows an attorney who represents a gay client to strike potential jurors because they express overt bigotry against gay people.” [...] Attorney Max Kennerly posits, “If we followed Alito’s reasoning that religious beliefs can never serve as a basis to strike a juror, we’d instantly run into a collision with jurors who believe, on religious grounds, the death penalty is wrong. Any guesses how Alito would rule on that? Yeah, exactly.”

Why the condemnation of homosexual behavior by some (NOT all) religious conservatives might legitimately raise questions of bigotry

It seems to me that Alito is acting as if "traditional religious views" about homosexuality are uniform.

Alito doesn't seem to acknowledge (or perhaps is not fully aware) that there are some interpretations of scripture that do not support the condemnation of homosexual behavior or even of same-sex unions. In fact there are some mainstream Christian denominations that allow for blessings of same-sex couples (including recently the very "traditional" Roman Catholic Church). Furthermore, Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative Jewish sects also allow the blessing of same-sex unions.

Given all of the above, one might reasonably wonder why some (not all) conservative Christians or Jews seem to prefer to accept anti-LGBTQ+ translations/ interpretations of scripture, when other translations/ interpretations that are more sympathetic to homosexual behavior are available.

Of course the primary group of religious people in the U.S. that condemns homosexual behavior consists of some (not all) right-wing "Christians" from various denominations. But one also might wonder why these same right-wing "Christians" DON'T seem to want to pass laws banning divorce, adultery, usury, lying, etc., but they DO want to pass anti-LGBTQ+ legislation? After all, behaviors like divorce, adultery, usury, and lying are clearly condemned in various parts of the Bible.

One might also ask, why do some of these same right-wing "Christians" who think it is okay to condemn the LGBTQ+ community, not also condemn a prominent politician like Trump, who has been divorced multiple times, committed adultery multiple times, and who lies almost every time he opens his mouth?

It is the picking and choosing of what to condemn, and the hyperfocus on using the law to allow those with certain "religious views" to deny the rights of the LGBTQ+ community (while not choosing to deny the rights of other kinds of so-called "sinners"--NOT that I support that either) that suggests it might be legitimate to question whether some on the religious right use religion as an excuse to hold bigoted beliefs about and/or to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community.

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#samuel alito #right-wing religious views #right-wing christians #anti-lgbtq+ religious beliefs #bigotry #lgbtq+ rights #the new civil rights movement #the new republic

[nogooddeetz]

such an underrated moment in tgwdlm is when infected!mcnamara sings “yeah we’re great again” and it goes above everyone’s heads and then when he sings “america is great again” right after and the audience catches up and goes “oohhh 😮🫨”

so good.

#one thing about starkid is that they’re going to make fun of right wing conservative assholes and christianity #and one thing about me is that i’m going to love it #tgwdlm #starkid #jeff blim #the guy who didn't like musicals #nick lang #matt lang #general mcnamara

[avalovesindie]

I am by no means an expert but it seems to me “your body does not belong to you” is a major theme of right wing authoritarianism and, interestingly, modern USAmerican thinking. This underpins so much from abortion to forcing kids to hug their relatives. Your body belongs to the state, or God, or your husband, or your boss, or your doctor. Everything from trans and gay liberation to forcing autistic people to look in your eyes to making cashiers stand for no reason. Your body does not belong to you, but taking care of your body is your responsibility and your responsibility alone, and if you fail in some way, you deserve the consequences.

#Socialism #The far right #rwa #authoritarianism #right wing authoritarianism #My body my choice #trans rights #Gay rights #christian fascism #Actuallyautistic #actually autistic #body autonomy #Some will agree with me but #When I bring up #Child liberation #and fat acceptance #Now all of a sudden I’m going too far

[shutinthenutouse]

#Politics #fascist #GOP #right wing terrorism #right wing extremism #gop fascists #christofascists #evangelicals #conservative christians #white supremacists #maga #republicans #stupid people #Republicans are Fascist #Vote Blue #Get Out The Vote #Vote Democratic #information #learning #fyi #history #nature #science #the more you know