Post #4052510
2026-07-24 03:03 UTC
Christianity as it exists (except in the margins) is thudding and leaden in its insistence upon absolutist tyranny, rule with a rod of iron.
The U.S. right wing have for centuries been picking out all the choicest bits and morsels of their favorite translations of the #Bible (usually the KJV in the past but they've branched out) that they regard as "literally true" (i.e. they're visibly words on paper) and proof that God wants the people's heads kicked in by cops and their wallets drained dry by God-fearing confidence tricksters.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 03:07
Richard Nixon isn't often talked about, that I've noticed, as a person who brought right-wing Christianity into focus as a pillar of Republican moral authority. With Ronald Reagan it was obvious: Peggy Noonan and John Podhoretz and Pat Buchanan and all the other scumlords of the right-wing intellectual set, supplying Reagan's costumed and spray-tanned body with motive force and the Telepromptered words of an army of script-writers, looted the vocal stylings of right-wing televangelists. (cont'd)