"they're so stupid and hypocritical. don't they realize—?" no, the Christian Nationalists are not particularly stupid, and they aren't even hypocritical they just don't believe all of us are fully human, and they worship power
We're all human, but we should be bent to their beliefs for our own good, and theirs, of course.
Hypocrisy itself is just... Okay, at some point you MUST stop going "LOL haha you contradicted yourself by your own logic!!!" and maybe realize that hypocrisy is itself the point. It is a show off power, my rules are not your rules. They change rhetoric all the time and folks just roll with it.
i think about this a lot, with all rightwing people. online dems love to dunk on them for their “hypocrisy” when they’re actually totally logically consistent, they just believe that there should be different rules for different types of people.
Many people can’t understand that Christian nationalists (and the far right in general) do not think like them at ALL and thus can’t be understood in terms of their own inner experiences. See “the right can’t meme” / “right wingers can’t do comedy”
They also 100% with total conviction believe it is their job to bring about the apocalypse and lead all the non-believers to their death.
The Bible, as a source document, is a lot like The Dress. What someone perceives is being represented by the artifact depends a lot on their assumptions, knowledge, mood, culture, age, and gender. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
A lot of them are stupid and have no desire or capacity to read the underlying document.