Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him ādonāt understandā their religion.
āIām going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,ā Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trumpās Christmas post. āIf you are a Christian who supports him you donāt understand your own religion.ā
Kinzinger, one of Trumpās fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that āTrump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he aināt a Christian and heās not āGodās man.āā
I was going to sayā¦ Has this rhetorical move ever convinced anyone of anything? I see Republicans pull it all the time on minority groups. āUh, actually, all you black democrat voters are on a plantation and its not in your best interests to vote consistently for a single party.ā And then, when it comes time for the GOP to put up or shut up, the best candidates they can produce are Herman Cain and Tim Scott.
Meanwhile, youāve got a bunch of Cafeteria Catholics from Rhode Island tut-tutting the Evangelicals down in Texas who have convinced themselves that the End of Days is right around the corner, because Donald Trump has fucked more children than your average priest. Nah, dude. That wonāt work any better than your boy Beto saying heās going to take everyoneās guns. Theyāre not listening to you any more than youāre listening to Ben Shapiro call our California for hosting too many gay teen abortion parades.
The folks who pop off with these āBy your own logicā¦ā retorts are inevitably just preaching to their own choirs. Thatās before they get back to the import Congressional business of gutting public education and exporting another billion dollars of cluster bombs into the Middle East.
No. It hasnāt, and it never will.
You canāt shake a belief. You can change an idea, you can rationalize with opinions. But once itās a belief, nothing short of a world shattering hardship or literally putting them through the same treatment that you give to cult members is going to break them out of it.
These people have built a belief system that puts them at the top, no matter what branch of Christianity youāre looking at, youāre looking at the most righteous, the most correct, the most justified in their actions. If someone says to them āhey youāve got it wrongā then clearly the only rational explanation is that no, you actually.
This isnāt unique to Christianity, not by a long shot. Most religious systems do this. But Christianity is the unique problem we have.
In order to believe that, youād have to believe Christianity really was magic. Nah, its an ingrained feature of the human psyche. One reason why āgetām while theyāre youngā is such an effective movement-building strategy.
Even within the greater sphere of Christianity, there are plenty of people who hold very benign beliefs. Meanwhile, being not-Christian doesnāt seem to spare you from the brain poisoning. Hell, within the atheist community, weāve got more than a few freaks and weirdos, too. At some level, this is far more about a particular brand of western ideology - a fundamentally fascist bent in social organization - that effectively drives people insane.