ScalziPro tip: If you're actively rejecting the word of Christ, you don't get to call yourself a Christian. #uspol
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity
Tom Bellin 
@scalzi The last part is wild to me. Just absolutely refusing to acknowledge that white fundamentalist culture is shot through with racism and misogyny.
Politics isn't the problem. The problem with evangelicalism and the reason why it had (generally) no problem with Trump is that it's founded on telling deeply bigoted people exactly what they want to hear.
Moni
Roger Moore@Gyerfry @tob @scalzi
The key factor isn't economic anxiety, or it would be going away now that the economy is doing as well as it has in a generation. The problem is social anxiety. People who are used to being at the top of the social hierarchy as a result of their race, gender, and religion are terrified of social equality.
The key factor isn't economic anxiety, or it would be going away now that the economy is doing as well as it has in a generation. The problem is social anxiety. People who are used to being at the top of the social hierarchy as a result of their race, gender, and religion are terrified of social equality.
@VATVSLPR @Gyerfry @scalzi The cherry on top here is that these people are in an explicitly conservative community. The overarching demographic and political changes pose no real threat to their status.
Radicalization requires an existential threat, which is easy bc evangelical faith is steeped in make believe.
They're fed wild fantasies that far off cities they've never seen and will never visit are on fire. And that gays and trans are marching on their small towns to make them all gay.
Yeah I'd agree. As a Christian myself, one of the things that really bugs me is this trend where some Christians try to martyr themselves because no one is actually martyring them, and they think it's the same thing. It's fueled by an anxiety that they cannot live up to our ideals I think. It's also an easy thing to exploit if you're, say, a mega-pastor who would like a third yaght and need people to mobilize against taxation.