Loud, politically-motivated Christians just strip-mine the Bible long enough to feed their confirmation bias, and then weaponise their twisted, nonsensical beliefs like they're running on rocket fuel.
They do this with such consistency and regularity that they have somehow convinced themselves that they are the moral majority.
Serious question: how do people like this ever wake up -- especially when you factor in that they actively and wilfully denounce self-awareness?
@AskTheDevil Well, y'know that doesn't surprise me too much, given your handle. ;-)
If they were the only ones affected by their beliefs, I might concede that. But laws are being pushed forward to legitimatise and enshrine the antagonism of people who are proud of not understanding what they're doing.
@sumpnlikefaith I am under the impression that they do not ever wake up. Doing so would rock the very foundation of their belief system and literally traumatize them. It is super unfortunate as I have lost friends and family members to this mental illness.
This is all just opinion from a very salty individual, take it as such.
@sirgeefive I've been in it my whole life to some extent, but the mainstreaming of extremism is new.
It's bizarre to me that the people who were always wagging their fingers at radicalism are now the ones swallowed up in it, and becoming its champions.
@sumpnlikefaith Fred Phelps realized how awful he had been right before he died, when it was too late to fix anything. So that can happen sometimes.
And believe it or not, I'd prefer to spare others the pain of waking up one day and realizing they'd been the Satans that they accused others of being.