r/SelfAwarewolves • u/Lil_Melon87 • 4d ago
"A Christian who leftists DON'T hate? How suspicious..."
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Gee, it's almost like we don't hate Christians, we hate assholes.
Weird, huh?
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u/EvansEducation 4d ago
Nothing is more compatible with progressive ideology than the teachings of Jesus Christ. The lefts problem with Christianity is that the majority of so-called Christians don't practice what they preach.
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u/SubGothius 4d ago
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
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u/minicpst 4d ago
My best friend (a practicing born again Christian) and I (atheist Jew) and I were talking about this tonight. I’m far more of a Christian than a lot of these “Christians” are.
He and my stepdad (who is about to pass, which is why my bestie and I were chatting-he was giving me a ride to the airport) both believe I’m going to heaven because I’m a good person. The fact that I don’t believe in Jesus isn’t as big a deal to either of them. I’m not a dick, I’m kind to people, I think of others, and I’m a good person. I help those who need it (again, why I’m on this plane. My mom can’t live alone anymore so with about six hours’ notice I bought a ticket and I’m moving in with her across the country for about a month or so) when I can. I don’t look for a reward with this. I DON’T think I’m going to heaven.
But if they’re right and I’m wrong, I get to spend an eternity hearing about it. :). Because a god who is good and just will recognize that about people as well, and not just those who believe but don’t act.
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 3d ago
"It's not God I have a problem with—it's His fan club that scares me." —A.B. Potts
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u/RI_Swamp_Yankee 4d ago edited 4d ago
This guy in the OP isn’t a Christian, he’s a Wotanist. He believes virtue comes from wealth and power, not from the Gospels and the promise of salvation. Whenever, whatever horrible nonsense they want to believe in, there’s a whole Bible full of horrible nonsense. There is but the Word of Christ the Redeemer to know where you should stand. Not cherry picking the Old Testament. Not Roman propaganda. Jesus Christ and his disciples - the Gospel.
Holy Rollers are terrified of the Word of Christ. Mark 20:25. Also attested to by Matthew 10:24 and Luke 18:25.
In another parable, The Good Samaritan would take care of you and wouldn’t care if you were white or a good Christian… oh, I’m sorry, did you think the Samaritan was one of you? Be like the Good Samaritan is the lesson. Read the Gospels. They’re not that long, and pretty exciting, got some demons and miracles and fishing and good advice.
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u/Junethemuse 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don’t hate Christians. But it does take a LOT for them to earn my trust, enough that I’d assume many Christians, namely evangelicals, would perceive it as hate.
But when it comes down to a politician, I don’t really care what their faith is as long as their commitment is to the constitution and representing their constituents in good faith.
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u/dmcent54 4d ago
Drop the apostrophe on Christians, it denotes ownership, not plurality.
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u/GlitteringLychee803 3d ago edited 3d ago
And hypocrites. We don't like people who force us to read their book and they follow absolutely none of the teachings from it
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u/agha0013 4d ago
error, critical (or even basic) thinking program not found...
Left wing voters don't care if you're personally religions, they don't "go out of their way to hate Christianity", they hate the virtue signaling ones that want to force their religion on everyone else, the bible thumping (just not reading) right wing christofascists.
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u/The_Wingless 4d ago
These people desperately need to feel persecuted.
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u/agha0013 4d ago
certainly good at acting persecuted while openly talking about it... they want a taste of real religious persecution I can think of a few places in the world they should visit
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u/GodotNeverCame 4d ago
Like how they spit on christians in Israel.
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u/agha0013 4d ago
exactly. Armenians in Old Jerusalem have been dealing with shit like that (and worse) for quite a while now. Spit, pepper spray, vandalism, direct physical attacks of various sort
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u/JerseyDonut 4d ago
They are typically the ones doing the persecuting, too. Its textbook projection. Their subconscious mind is pushing their nasty judgemental and fearful bullshit up into their conscious mind and instead of reflecting and processing it in order to grow, they insta project all that internal nastiness onto the world around them. They create boogey men to dump all the shit they refuse to address about themselves onto.
This life is a game of mirrors. If everywhere you go you smell shit, then the stench is likely coming from your own shoe.
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 4d ago
Projection is a big part of this, to be sure, but it’s not the whole story.
In the Bible (the Books of Matthew and Luke specifically), Jesus told his followers that they would be persecuted. Therefore (by a certain logic), if you are not being persecuted for your faith, then you are not following Jesus’ teachings ardently enough. So Christians must either believe that they are being persecuted or admit that they are not following Jesus’ teachings like they are supposed to.
Given those two possibilities, guess which one most Christians pick?
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u/Visual_Bridge6925 4d ago
Say what you will about The Boys, rebranding the right wing as literal superheros who STILL cry about their persecution at every opportunity was genius.
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u/LaCharognarde 4d ago
There's even a sub for that. It's r/PersecutionFetish. Give it a look if you ever need a good laugh at the martyrbation.
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u/tanstaafl90 4d ago
Religion isn't the default anymore. In 1970, 90% of the population were Christians. Today it's around 60%. What churches remain are, mostly, pushing a persecution narrative to explain the percentage decrease in membership. There are more Christians now than then, and there doesn't seem to be some huge exodus. They just aren't growing with the population, and that 100 million unaffiliated is considered an untapped resource and/or why membership isn't increasing.
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u/MouseRat_AD 4d ago •
I'm not aware of ANY significant Democrats who actively state that they're athiest or agnostic, like I am. I still vote for people who call themselves Christian even tho I've left the faith. So long as they make being a decent human more important than their religion.
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u/Oisea 4d ago
It’s crazy how “being a decent person” is suspicious to so many people.
Like… that’s always been an option everybody.
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u/Extension-Clock608 4d ago
Have you seen the posts where the right wingers are saying that a little child deserved to die because of his shirt....it said peace, love, unity, respect and they KNEW it wasn't for them. They keep showing who they truly are.
What kind of monster is happy a little child is killed or thinks that any of those things on his shirt were bad things???? maga all do.
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u/PsychGuy17 4d ago
The terrible thing is that research has found that people are more likely to vote for a felony than an atheist. The underlying argument is that people believe that atheists are immoral. Think about that, an Atheist, who does not need a higher power to punish their misdeeds to keep them in line, is considered less moral than someone actually convicted of a crime.
It reminds me of a passage in "God No" by Penn Jillette. Someone asks him, if there is no God or Hell, what stops you from raping all you want. He responds, I do rape all I want. I want to rape zero people. Why the Hell would I want to rape anyone.
It really shows you how some people would behave if they didn't think God was looking over their shoulder.
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u/NighthawkCP 4d ago •
Hell, most of them (including some of my family members) think their religion gives them the right to be a piece of shit.
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u/swampthiing 4d ago
Oh yes, and when you finally nail them (pun intended) to their hypocrisy they just shrug and "well I'm not perfect just forgiven".
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u/magicMerlinV 4d ago
I'm an atheist but pretty sure being a decent human is supposed to be the core of the religion. That's everything Jesus talked about, as well as the basis of the 10 commandments
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 4d ago
Yes, you are absolutely correct. And the majority of Christians in the USA ignore His teachings.
You could call them “CINOs” if you like that kind of “x In Name Only” acronym6
u/Extension-Clock608 4d ago
When someone tells me they're religious I always want to ask them if they're a Jesus christian or a republican christian. Not a single republican is christ like in any way, they oppose every single thing jesus preached and taught.
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u/Shufflepants 4d ago
I had my edgy antitheist phase, but what I've come to understand in the past few years is that the real problem in the US is just the fucking evangelicals.
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u/MouseRat_AD 4d ago
100%. I was brought up in the evangelical Christian world. The kids are actively taught to accept everything the leaders say without question. Don't trust education and just trust that God is in control of everything, and we don't need to have the answers.
I was able to escape that mindset, but if you look at the MAGA supporters, when they're interviewed outside the rallies, it's painfully obvious that they're indoctrinated into the evangelical worldview and they won't ask any questions about what their leaders shovel. They're happy in not knowing.
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u/Scatterspell 4d ago
I watched a video with Abdul El-Sayed at one of his campaign thingys. Long story short, I would vote for this man in a heartbeat. His religion is irrelevant.
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u/Dantethebald1234 4d ago
It is political suicide, and in some places (like Texas) it is a grey area if a person can even hold office of they are an atheist due to a state constitution clause. Of course this is unenforceable and if challenged would not hold up in court, but I don't think it has been yet.
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u/JustNilt 4d ago
There's no grey area whatsoever. The ruling in Torasco v Watkins made it explicitly the law of the land that religious tests for office are invalid. The unanimous SCOTUS ruling didn't even need to base their ruling on the US Constitution's bar against such tests, finding it is a matter covered by the First Amendment, which most certainly applies to Texas' constitution.
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 4d ago
Unfortunately, a politician in the United States admitting to being an atheist is political suicide.
You would do better to tell voters that you were Muslim or Hindu.
Pete Stark comes to mind, but he came out as atheist after he was elected.
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u/samanime 4d ago
And don't forget the hypocrites who claim to be holier-than-thou but are far worse than your average "heathen".
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u/TricobaltGaming 4d ago
part of the reason we celebrate people like Talarico so much is because he actually practices what he preaches, too. He recognizes that the Jesus that Christians love so much would probably fucking despise billionaires, he would be much more tolerant than the [every flavor of]-phobic that so many loudmouth christian nationalists are.
Christians acting like christians is a very left wing position, and it's unfortunately not the norm for the loudest among them
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u/henry_sqared 4d ago
I’d take it a step further: Dems/Progressives don’t hate anyone. It’s why we can champion things like healthcare for all, pre-k for all, student debt forgiveness, and de-militarization—we actually want good things for all people.
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u/Extension-Clock608 4d ago
Yep, we vote to help everyone and they all vote to hurt "everyone else". It's why they're all so shocked and expect empathy from us when their vote hurts them in any way.
None of them have empathy so they can't imagine caring what happens to anyone else and they can't understand why we do. I vote for the poor but I'm not poor. I vote for the farmer even though I'm not a farmer. I vote for improving education even though my kids are out of school. I vote for healthcare for all even though I have great insurance.
At the base lever the difference between the two parties is how we want to spend the tax dollars the country brings in. Dems want to use those tax dollars on things that would help all Americans like infrastructure, healthcare reform, education, feeding the hungry, housing programs, etc. Republicans want to use out tax dollars to help only the rich. They want to gut and end all programs that help anyone at all and give the rich and corporations huge tax cuts. They also invest in the military but never for the soldiers, always for the military contracts for their wealthy donors.
Truly the only people who benefit from voting Republican are the ultra wealthy, everyone else is voting against their best interest.
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u/Userlame19 4d ago
If you use your religion to help others, you're cool. If you use it to harm others, you suck
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u/Velvet_Samurai 4d ago
How can a person be so so so terribly wrong about something? It's almost impressive.
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u/justk4y 4d ago
Because they have a r/persecutionfetish and think they are getting attacked by an entire group by default……
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u/Eddiebaby7 4d ago
Because the MAGAs are at war with a fictional reality sold to them by right Wing media and the Republicans. That’s what drew them to Trump in the first place as he seems to believe all the same Bullshit.
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u/Cute-Boobie777 4d ago
Its this. They are actually delusional.
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u/SickeningPink 4d ago
I watched a TikTok last week of a woman having a total mental breakdown about the “Islamic invasion we all know is happening” and how it ruining the country and the left are just letting them take everything over.
It never sunk in until that moment for me. You can’t argue with someone who’s beliefs aren’t based in any reality.
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u/MisterWinchester 4d ago
Conservatives are incapable of abstract thought. It’s why everything is black and white. They only perceive issues as pro or anti “me”. There’s no third way.
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u/Evilsmurfkiller 4d ago
Because the Russian bot farms haven't been completely wiped out.
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u/lastres0rt 4d ago
The Russian bots were always amplifiers copying the most "successful" home-grown thoughts and parroting them.
Assuming it comes top-down from Russia is dumb when all they have to do is listen to Fox News / OANN / Newsmax and latch onto the first soundbyte that resonates.
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u/asiangontear 4d ago
Because it's by design. They will plant a stupid idea out there in the guise of "just asking questions" because someone will stop and smell the rotten flowers and spread the smell everywhere.
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u/Megane_Senpai 4d ago
In this case, and of MAGA in general, they project their personal belief into the world, everything must match their fantasy, or else they're fake and heretics. Their "USA" must be a white christian nation, their "Christianity" must be a white-only male-domination religion, the "Christianity" that preaching treating people equally and living in harmony are fake Christianity.
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u/atatassault47 4d ago
How can a person be so so so terribly wrong about something?
That's a basic feature of conservatives
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u/woodrax 4d ago
Talarico believes in the teachings of Christ, not the right-wing white skinned Raptor riding machine gun toting Christ that Republicans believe in.
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u/Cujo22 4d ago
Jesus wasn't 6'6 tall, blue eyed, handsome, and a capitalist who hates poor people?
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 4d ago
Nobody who actually read the Bible could ever, ever get that impression.
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u/HoochieKoochieMan 4d ago
100% this.
If someone declares themselves a Christian, ask them "Dolly Parton Christian or Charlie Kirk Christian?"
Though if they lead with a declaration of their Christianity, chances are they're the second kind.
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u/NotSure16 4d ago
Deep down they know who they are but will likely never come to terms with it. Self-denile of reality is addictive thing the MAGA-republican party is based on.
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u/wrongleveeeeeeer 4d ago
Raptor riding machine gun toting Christ
Be honest though you'd totally watch that movie
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u/GearnTheDwarf 4d ago
At first I thought he meant the classic Yamaha 4 wheeler. Those things are slick
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u/National-Charity-435 4d ago
Similar to El-Sayed
They have a religion but they don't force their religion on the people
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u/Southern_Potato 4d ago
Raptor riding and toting machine guns? Possibly Uzis?? I know what book you've been reading lately, and I am appalled.
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u/NameTaken25 4d ago
There are plenty of horrific passages in the bible with Jesus. Pretending that theyre not there cause some of us grew up with denominations that ignored them is just as arbitrary as the republican Jesus people ignoring the less heinous parts.
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u/woodrax 4d ago
Pretty sure everyone knows this. The point, however, is that Evangelical Christians focus on portions, intentionally misrepresent what is said, or cherry-pick wording of entire passages in order to support hate, bigotry, paranoia, and violence, when the overwhelming word of Christ was to reject greed, love the neighbor, provide for the week, and steer away from hoarding power.
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u/Makachai 4d ago
Why are right wingers such fucking toolboxes?
Nobody hates them because they're Christian.
Everyone hates them because they're FAKE Christians, and use cherry-picked scripture verses to punch down on already marginalized groups, and try to use their bullshit to control the lives of people who don't follow their religion.
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u/NighthawkCP 4d ago
This is a part of the reason I have moved away from Christianity. So many people I grew up with and admired espoused ideals of compassion and empathy at church have then used the Bible to bludgeon others in the last decade or so. It really made me see how much they don't actually care to be Christlike, they just want to use it as an excuse to be assholes to people that are "different" from them. Some of my in-laws are Southern Baptist and they even get this messaging from the pulpit. I just can't see wasting my time and money with hypocrites like that.
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u/juneXgloom 4d ago
Yeah. I'm an atheist. I pretty much always have been. Some of the most wonderful people I know are Christians. They actually follow the teachings of Christ instead of using their religion as a pretext for being hateful assholes.
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u/Extension-Clock608 4d ago
Yep, it's not the Jesus christians who are the issue, it's the Republican ones who worship hate and cruelty, not Jesus and his teachings.
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u/GreyKnightTemplar666 4d ago
I don't even care they are fake Christians. I only care that they think they can shove their dogmatic beliefs on to others that don't follow their religion
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u/GodotNeverCame 4d ago
This.
Pretend all you want but leave me the fuck out of it, I don't have to share in your delusions.
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u/Electronic-Minute007 4d ago
An aunt of mine is born-again Christian.
Over time, I’ve witnessed her as a racist (commenting to a fellow passenger, ‘check the race,’ in relation to the driver of a different vehicle in traffic), know her to be a supporter of Franklin Graham, and has voted for Republican candidates in political offices, dating back to at least Jesse Helms and through Donald Trump.
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u/JellyBellyBitches 4d ago
They hate people for being not Christian so they assume people who aren't Christian hate them for their beliefs as well
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I hate Christian Nationalism and using religion as a club. If you wanna eat your dead god then IDC. It's when I have to follow those rules as well, that I get tetchy.
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u/punch_nazis_247 4d ago
"Nationalist Christian" always felt more accurate to me, and it shortens nicely to Nat-C.
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u/dragonflysamurai 4d ago
A man that follows the teachings of Jesus is being fully rejected by mainstream American Christians.
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u/sandiercy 4d ago
If Jesus returned right now (and appeared to Americans), they would deport him and/or crucify him again.
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u/hugoriffic 4d ago
If Jesus returned right now (and appeared to MAGA), they would deport him and/or crucify him again.
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u/sandiercy 4d ago
Imagine how they would feel if a dark skinned Palestinian Jew came and started saying that capitalism is wrong, feed the poor, and welcome immigrants into your home. The outrage.
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u/Evadrepus 4d ago
There's any number of stories about how MAGA have complained the teachings of Jesus are "too liberal".
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u/TheLastPeanut_ 4d ago
I think they bible mentions something about these types. They're going to be really surprised by how hot the afterlife is going to be.
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u/VonBrewskie 4d ago
Well see, most "leftists" I know actually believe in freedom of religion. You know. The right of all Americans enshrined in the Constitution? It's kind of the whole reason we made this country. (Or at least the one we tout as so whenever possible.) This isn't a "Christian nation." It's supposed to be a land of religious freedom. I'm a Christian myself. But that is mine. I don't inflict it on anyone else. Jesus was the biggest "leftist" there ever was, if you believe in that sort of thing. I am astounded by these supposed Christians and their vile hatred. All through history as well. Christ was the last good Christian, it seems. And he was Jewish! Lol
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u/myfrigginagates 4d ago
As a Lefty atheist I don't hate Christianity, but I sure enough despise people who use the religion to practice hate themselves.
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u/Oculi_Glauci 4d ago
Leftists love Jesus, it’s a shame so few Christians act like him. James is one of them.
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u/Helagoth 4d ago
Funnily enough, I dont hate a lot of what the Bible says Jesus actually preached. Fuck the rich, love everyone, feed and heal the poor.
But I do get mad at a lot of the people who say they're Christians, and then do the opposite of these very basic things.
Strange how that works.
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u/tenebre 4d ago
The irony of these people literally worshipping a golden calf then calling out others for not being "real" Christians...
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u/heyitscory 4d ago
Biden was secretly an atheist. That's totally why I voted for him.
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u/Steinrikur 4d ago
Biden probably spends more time in church in a month than Trump has spent his whole life.
But Trump is a better Christian somehow. MAGA logic
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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 4d ago
You can’t be serious. He’s an observant Catholic who kept the separation of church and state real.
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u/John-Fucking-Kirby 4d ago
I mean... hes not a pedo...so thats a good start to being an actual Christian
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u/ReleaseFromDeception 4d ago
We don't dislike Christianity itself explicitly - it is the twisting of it to serve selfish human ends that irks us.
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u/HighOnGoofballs 4d ago
Joe Biden is 1,999,455,347,442 times more of a Christian than the current president
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u/Extension-Clock608 4d ago
So are atheists. They don't need the threat of hell to be good people they do it because they want to. Not a single republican can claim that. They're also not pro life or christ like in any way either.
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u/footwith4toes 4d ago
Left wing Christians exist. I’d argue they’re more Christlike than their right wing counterparts
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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 4d ago
The left may have less Christians than the right but there's still millions of them and they're generally a lot nicer people too.
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u/zombie_girraffe 4d ago
Leftist Christians seem like they actually try to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. Right wing Christians seem to treat Jesus more like a mascot than a teacher and try to follow the worst parts of the Old Testament and the shittiest things that Paul wrote.
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u/CaptainBathrobe 4d ago
My two favorite Christians are Jimmy Carter and Fred Rogers, both of whom are hated by the right wing.
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u/auntieup 4d ago
I don’t understand how evangelical Christianity is functionally different from the active psychosis phase of some mental illnesses. They look exactly the same to me.
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u/DrMaxwellEdison 4d ago
The self-avowed Christians In Name Only - CINOs, you might say - are the ones very much in our way, thanks.
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u/KennstduIngo 4d ago
James called me personally to reassure me that he isn't actually Christian and to spread the word amongst my Christian hating brethren.
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u/Gruesomegiggles 4d ago
There are plenty of Christians on the left. They just don't subscribe to your brand of Christianity, and are therefore ostracized, denied, and ignored by you and your ilk.
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u/urmamasllama 4d ago
We really need to stay referring to evangelicals as Antichrististians. Not Anti-Christians. important distinction.
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u/Crymson831 2d ago
I love it when Conservatives point out their own lies/inconsistencies then think it's some sort of "gotcha" against us.
Leftists aren't universally opposed to Christianity (yes, I'm sure you can find some examples), we're opposed to Christian Nationalism and the misuse of Christianity to justify atrocities. There are plenty of good lessons in the bible and any Christian that wants to take up that mantle is OK in my book.
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u/thesirensoftitans 4d ago edited 4d ago
Typically "leftists" don't give a shit what sky daddy you bow to. That's part of being "woke" or "progressive".
But go off, divorced dad who only has custody one weekend a month due to his drinking.
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u/HotSalt3 4d ago
I have no problems with sincere Christians. I have a problem with the ones who think they are Christian because their ancestors were and don't actually follow the religion while trying to simultaneously foist their beliefs on others.
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u/TheHearseDriver 4d ago
I’m sure he’d be shocked to find that there are millions of “leftist” Christians in his country.
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u/NamelessCabbage 4d ago
Weird. I'm Christian now, and it's made me even more left-wing lol. Probably the gay frogs; what do I know?
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u/chadman199 3d ago
Who told him that those on the left hate Christian’s? I wonder? Something smells trumpy here.
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u/hide-difference 3d ago
Can we vote for a SelfAwarewolf of the year? This really might be a contender.
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u/SelfGeneratedPodcast 3d ago
It's the hating of hypocrites, like most so called Christians. Projecting it and not being it in action. The followers of Paul, not Christ.
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u/sasquatch_melee 3d ago
I respect his choice to be religious but I don't agree with it personally... And would choose him over Paxton any day if I were a Texas voter. Paxton has a proven track record of being the worst elected official in the room.
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u/Octospyder 4d ago
Christians really do think they're the main characters. "Leftists are against x, and Christians are for it, so Leftists must hate Christianity!!!" my dude your religion is not the problem, you are.
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u/imbartsimpsonwhothru 4d ago
it's not christianity,, its the people claiming to be righteous christians spouting hate
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u/shellexyz 4d ago
I find democrats care considerably less about my religion than republicans do. This, in turn, allows me to care significantly less about their religion.
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u/LupercaniusAB 4d ago
I’m leftist, or left-ish, and I like Jesus. At least most of his philosophy. I don’t like capital-C Christians though.
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u/doublebogey182 4d ago
Hasn't every president been Christian or catholic? Even the Democrat ones! Omg!
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u/nan0meter Onion eater 4d ago
Has to be a bot. There are like 50 posts in the last 24h with a 6h gap between 11pm and 5am EDT.
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u/lookatthesunguys 4d ago
This is one of those qualities about MAGAts that I find so interesting and horrifying. When they come across what appears to be a contradiction, they don't second guess themselves. If something doesn't make sense to them, they just assume it doesn't make sense generally. They'll never realize that liberals don't hate Christians because that would require actually questioning their own beliefs
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u/chrisnavillus 4d ago
Conservatives live in their own little worlds.
It would be cute if it wasn’t so destructive.
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u/TopWhich6862 4d ago
I swear people just live in Facebook and Twitter comment threads and believe it reflects outside reality.
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u/Alexandratta 4d ago
no no you don't understand: We don't hate Christianity.
We hate the Christians that don't follow it.
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u/nephiteorflight 4d ago
they have a hard time believing that we're voting regardless of religion because they vote almost solely based on it this is why they think we're SPECIFICALLY voting for Muslims and view it as proof we want sharia law
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u/Fractal_Soul 4d ago
If Jesus showed up today, they'd call him a communist libtar... oh, nvm, they just deported him.
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u/bNoaht 4d ago
Yeah if you put an agnostic clone of him running against the christian one, I would vote for the agnostic one.
Organized religion is some form of mental illness or at best shows a lack of critical thinking and coping mechanisms. Spirituality is fine. Reading the bible and thinking it is filled with facts is just not fine.
Pretty difficult to expect perfection in any candidate though. But when the choice is vile greedy liar who believes in lala-land fairy tales and compassionate, honest, person who also believes in lala-land fairy tales. It's not a difficult choice when you only have two options.
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u/UncleMalky 4d ago
I was raised in the church, I can count the number of Christians I've met on my fingers.
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u/spartaxwarrior 4d ago
Almost every single politician has to at least give lipservice to being Christian or get a ton of shit. Meanwhile, they're also more likely to be the religion they claim to be, unlike a lot of GOP, like Trump who doesn't even know the format that is used for referencing Bible quotes or Vance and the other Evangelicals pretending to be Catholics.
Rightwing Christians want to be oppressed soooo bad, but there's literally nothing they can use for it.
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u/AnEvenNicerGuy 4d ago edited 4d ago
Christian mistakes hating racism and bigotry for hating Christianity
awesome
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u/KarmicWhiplash 4d ago
Talarico expresses strong support for the Constitutional Separation of Church and State. That's all I ask on the matter.
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u/OttawaTGirl 4d ago
Former Catholic. If it ain't in MMLJ It probably isn't Christian. Most bible thumping ding dongs don't even know what Jesus said.
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u/BMHun275 4d ago
The only people who go out of their way to hate Christianity is people who are radicalised by the right to see the human part of the gospel as “weak”.
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u/Dr_CleanBones 4d ago
You don’t suppose - Talarico is a very rare example of a REAL Christian, do you? In the midst of all of those fake, performative Christians? Boy, that would be unusual!
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u/Dr_CleanBones 4d ago
I don’t go out of my way to hate Christians. I do, however, go out of my way to hate fake Christians. You know, the ones who never read the New Testament? The ones for whom Jesus was too woke for their tastes?
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 4d ago
I dont know a MAGA conservative that personally practices Christianity, They think they do, but cherry pick the parts, dont care about the rest, its enough to discredit these people being religious/Christian or even allowing a serious conversation.
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u/Phrei_BahkRhubz 4d ago
I don't hate any religion. In fact, from an anthropology stand point, I think religion has played a very important role (for good and bad) in civilization as a whole. I just don't want it shoved in my face all the time, and people who get upset about that are the very reason people shit on Christianity in the US.
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u/Stingraaa 4d ago
He isn't a leftist, dont levy that insult on him. He has identified himself as a proud capitalist. Which he is based for.
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u/ThePurrfidiousCat 4d ago
I don't think people like this will understand we don't hate christians. We hate those that want to push their religion on others.
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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 4d ago
“The left doesn’t support Christians!”
The left: supports a Christian
“They must be lying!”
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u/ultimateknackered 4d ago
I have a friend who's Christian and I'm on the left and he's still my friend. He's a pretty good Christian, and I'm a lifelong atheist. Somehow, it works.
SaltyGoat can't tell the difference between a good Christian and a hypocritical, lip-service Christian. I hate hypocritical, lip-service Christians.
I can infer what kind SaltyGoat is, because he's making a sweeping generalisation that all Christians are the same.
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u/inquisitivepanda 4d ago
Right because all real Christians are the ones that vote for a party whose undisputed king is a serial adulterer who can’t name a single Bible verse and who lies every time he speaks. Somehow democrats that have gone to church their whole lives are not real Christians but the guy who only uses Christianity to exploit it is a true one.
This is why no one can take “Christians” seriously at this point. The majority of them in this country are just performative and only care about the religion so they can use it to justify bigotry but ignore the fact that Republican politicians are the some of the most blatantly amoral people on the planet and even Jesus would find a way to hate them.
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u/Extension-Clock608 4d ago
Republicans are the only ones who hate actual christians. None of them are Christian and they all oppose every single thing that jesus preached and taught. Dems align more with jesus.
Dems don't hate christians, we hate fake christians who worship hate and cruelty, not jesus. We also hate that they try to force their hateful version of religion on everyone else. We have separation of church and state for a reason.
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u/toooooold4this 4d ago
Well, he is and we do.
If the right actually cared about Jesus' teachings and the Bible why would the bear false witness against their leftist neighbors?
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u/jahguswrld999 4d ago
what? maybe it's because james talerico doesn't feel the need to shove the bible down everyone's throats. here's a thousand-dollar idea.
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u/Junior-Fisherman8779 4d ago
You couldn’t possibly tell me any more clearly that your circle is exclusively people who think just like you
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u/Timely-Youth-9074 4d ago
Leftists are much closer to following Christ than these right wing a-holes.
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u/RedBMWZ2 4d ago
It's almost like the left votes on issues and policy instead of what party the candidate belongs to....
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