"Exit polls reveal a familiar story: around 8 in 10 white evangelicals voted for Trump (as did around 6 in 10 white Catholics and mainliners)."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Exit polls reveal a familiar story: around 8 in 10 white evangelicals voted for Trump (as did around 6 in 10 white Catholics and mainliners)."

~ Kristin Du Mez

But keep in mind that the Democrats and Biden and Harris are the real problem, as the corporate media, who have bent over backwards to normalize Trump and fascism, keep telling us. /s

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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/rejecting-the-bargain

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Kristin Du Mez then notes that she went to church the Sunday after the election and heard her pastor Len VanderZee preach the following:

"We’ve heard it all before. The divine right of kings. God and country in the Fuhrer’s 1000 year Reich. And today, there’s the message that God is leading America back to its former glory as a 'Christian nation.'

That was exactly the idolatry that many early Christians died in resisting."

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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The one thing the church must never do is to claim God to be on the side of any particular country or any particular political party or any particular individual. That is is the road to idolatry. That is a bargain with the Devil."

Kristin Du Mez's article has a link to a YouTube video of her pastor's sermon this past Sunday.

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[dsmdexter@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
What is the sense of making up a god if it can't be on your side?

[tawtovo@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Dr. Du Mez, and her pastor, no doubt mean well, but I still find it trivializing when he says (and she highlights): "I think that many people reject the gospel today not because they see it as false, but because they see it as trivial."

I reject the Protestant gospel because it is empirically evil, leading white Protestants to be the most consistent and powerful supporters of evil in our country (closely followed by white Catholics). I wish I knew a Christian who took that seriously.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tawtovo Yes, I can understand that response. I myself am deeply alienated from church communities, and don't (and won't) attend church except as a social obligation (e.g., a funeral). I do donate monthly to a Black church that I think deserves my support. At the same time, I give credit to people like Du Mez's pastor for speaking out when there's intense pressure on pastors to do otherwise.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dsmdexter One might equally ask what's the sense in ridiculing people who believe in God and treating them as if they are our intellectual and moral superiors and we are elevated human beings in comparison with them.

[dsmdexter@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
One might find that answer by praying to one's fairy godfather.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dsmdexter Yes, or perhaps when one is a superior being, one need not search for any answers at all, since one has said answers, and lots of kindness, bonhomie, and fellow-feeling as a result?