I swear I’d not seen the term “christofascism” until this year. It’s an apt term for all the talk about the new speaker of the house, rolling back of Roe v Wade, banning books and increased persecution of LGBT+ rights…
But if I was Christ I’d be pretty darn upset right now. I talk about love and tolerance and peace and you’re going to use my name to make shitty, power grabbing, political, oppressive moves? The fuckin audacity. I’d be flipping tables and calling out the hypocrites.
I know it’s a conversation as old as time. I also don’t believe Christian’s should be able to point at it and say “yeh but that’s not MY Jesus.” Doesn’t fucking matter, they’re identifying as a You so if You don’t do something about it then it’s as good as doin it yourself.
Sigh.
You might be interested in “The Law of Love and the Law of Violence” by Tolstoy. He makes the same argument, that most Christians are terrible at following the actual teachings of Christ.
Why give a flying fuck to follow such when forgiveness, as a protestant, is a forever freebie if you ask but once and get that death promise.
Alternatively you can simply accept that the mouth runner will rape your kids and that’s just fine.
They’re both lies. Catholics ain’t special. There are more changes to the new testament than there are letters.
There’s also Dostoevsky’s story “The Grand Inquisitor” from The Brothers Karamazov, in which Jesus returns only to be told that the church no longer needs him or his ideals.
