Exactly. The alcoholic cheater who sometimes hits his wife is a fun guy to them, a good Christian who’s trying his best. But a trans woman who spends Friday night driving around to pick up food for food not bombs needs to repent and live as Jesus said.
I’m not pretending Christianity is amazing, I’m an apostate for a reason, but I’ll say this: I’m still a better Christian than a large portion of Christians I know despite the apostacy and the paganism.
Well, being trans means you believe god made a mistake when creating your body! An opinion held by many Christians wearing corrective eyeware.
That’s fair. One formative experience i had was seeing my childhood church have many parishioners reject our priest. He was pretty radical for a catholic priest having gone on record asking his bishop to perform two separate lesbian weddings (his sister and neice), when I came out of the closet he offered to talk to my ex father about how there’s a commandment about loving family but none about gender, and he routinely called for his parishioners to think and actually strive to be better people. They did not like that. They also really didn’t like when he kept telling the teenagers that he’d rather we think about our beliefs and convert away than to just stay catholic because we were raised that way.
This isn’t even something people are recently aware of. There’s this old gospel song from the 1920s that Tom Jones does an amazing cover of, called Run On. I keep thinking about these lyrics every time one of these scandals comes up. Of course, the people in the song will supposedly get their comeuppance, but it’s a gospel song, so that’s to be expected:
Some people go to church just to signify
Or try to make a date with the neighbor’s wife
But brother, let me tell you sure as you’re born
You better leave that woman alone
One of these days, you mark my words
You’ll think your brother is gone to work
You sneak up and knock on his door
Look out, brother, you’ll knock no more
(I’m an atheist, but it’s Tom Fucking Jones.)
Forgot the name and creator of the theory but it’s basically in/out-group theory. Originally thought up to explain youth criminality in particular.
On another note, if you are interested run a check-list on the criteria that lead to mass criminality as in genocide and the like for Russia/China and the USA in particular. It’s appalling how close they are in that regard. If we ever get a 3rd world war the war crimes will be uncountable
