your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 11

RE: https://archaeo.social/@rcosta/116556889266749596

THIS!
one of the best discussions about God happened in my #biology 101 class at #UPR #RíoPiedras.

in 1984, i entered college in Puerto Rico. the world had already 4 years of fascist #reaganism. we were LIVING the first wave of attacks on science from #GOP #republicans as college n00bs.

our profe didn't shy away from the question. as a good #Vatican2 #catholic, he described it as the mystery of the universe, as the unknown before the Big Bang & evolution. #science made his #faith stronger.

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@blogdiva From a European viewpoint I think many young Americans claim to hate Christianity/Christians because they only have as reference the North American Evangelic movement.
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Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMay 13

@blogdiva @rcosta

Eh, this sort of rhetoric may be emotionally satisfying by Othering the problem in Christianity to the North American evangelical movement, but anyone paying attention will have also noticed:

• The North American evangelical movement has not stayed in North America. It has cut a horrendous swath through Africa where it has been convincing countries to make being gay a capital crime. It is also targeting South America and SE Asia.

• The so-called mainline churches have until very recently been unwilling to call out the evangelical movement directly, and largely spent the last several decades providing cover for them by being unwilling to criticize fellow Christians.

• The highly prominent role of Catholics, e.g. Amy Coney Barrett, in the political movement the evangelicals created, particular in trying to roll back the rights of women.

• The monumental child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

Focusing on blaming the evangelicals for the poor reputation of Christianity is easy and comfortable but not helpful to Christianity and pretty much guarantees the problems afflicting it will not addressed.

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@siderea @blogdiva I believe we all, more or less, know of that. Each point could be discussed (ie differences between Catholics around the world, that some original Evangelic congregations are not fanatic, etc.), but the key is that "today" the most nefarious christian movement in the world is the American Evangelic one (Neo-Pentecostalist). A death cult, with huge political influence, that literally desires a global nuclear Apocalypse to end Humanity!
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMay 13

@rcosta
I did not point those things out to you because I thought you did not know them. I pointed those things out to you because you had to willfully ignore them to say what you did and they make what you said wrong.

@blogdiva

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@siderea @blogdiva "I did not point those things..." I didn't want to say that. As mentioned, the only Christians that want the physical end of the world and have the capability to do it (connections: US Politics and Army) are the US Neo-Pentecostal Evangelics. Also they are the only ones that don't want to improve/solve internal issues. Evangelism in S. America is part of a very old strategy to capture those countries to USA cultural sphere and convert them in colonies as end game.