"the dismissal of authoritarian Christianity as ‘fake’ Christianity only serves to reinforce Christian hegemony by perpetuating the equation of ‘Christian’ with ‘good’ in the common imagination... " -chrissy stroop www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/stop...
A year on from the Capitol Hill riots, US democracy is still under attack – and the media’s misunderstanding of religious values isn’t helping
Chrissy Stroop wrote about this back in 2017 and has written several follow-up articles in the same vein. This is an old problem, and the more peope who understand it the better off we'll be. cstroop.com/2017/05/03/a...
In an era of “fake news,” “fake science,” and even “fake law,” I suppose it was inevitable the term “fake Christians” would pop up. On Twitter, it…
Yep. Like, look. Christians. I am sorry that you turned the other cheek until your whole religion turned into a Nazi bar, again, but sorting that out is not my fucking problem. Acknowledge your mess and fix it. I'll help mop up the blood if you ask nice.
This is a good point. I do this. It’s easy to do between Christians I think who aren’t magats and are good people, and the ones who claim to be Christian but don’t have a Christ like bone in their bodies.
Christians silence is complicity and consent. That the major faiths haven't overtly condemning Trump, that alone speaks volumes about them.
Christians love nothing more than a No Real Scotsman Strawman argument
My extended family is full of fundamentalist but not evangelical Christians (Mennonites). They aren’t Trumpers but they are 100% behind the anti-trans and anti-LGBT jihad crossing the country. People think they are good folks with their plain dress and fruit stands. They are not.
Former fundy here, too, and I agree with Chrissy on this for exactly this reason. I grew up with and attended school with *thousands* of strict religious folks who are now voting for Trump. They are deeply, unwavering religious and Christian. You can’t just No True Scotsman them away.
If there's one thing I could get every single well-meaning Christian to understand, it's that "real Christians are X" is an explicitly religious argument that depends on religious truth claims. And when you ask non-Christiana to accept that, you're demanding that they accept your religious claim.
Yes this is Ms Stroop's line, and she's quite dogmatic about it, in my opinion.