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  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I am once again reminding everyone that American evangelical Protestants are not God-fearing Christians but rather pagans who worship Mammon in the form of America in the form of God

    And we love our fucking pagan idols don't we folks

    Pretty sure this guy is blaspheming with this post

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        In hell they have based hell where all the cool blasphemers sits in a bar drinking with hot demons and listening to metal and then there is cringe hell where deranged neolibs are pushed into lockers for eternity.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Nah, they're pretty much Calvinists with a modern flair. American Evangelical Protestants are a natural evolution of Christianity in the environment of settler colonialism.

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The argument I'm making is that settler-colonialism has deformed American evangelical Protestantism into something that is not really Christian. As a result of the "limitless" bounty of the land, taken violently from the natives and African slaves, we've developed a highly-religious people who no longer worship God but the acquisition and consumption of material things. Its IMO how you get abominations of theology like prosperity gospel. American Protestants no longer have an authentic spirituality. They are driven to demonstrate their personal religiosity, devotion to "God", reflection of "God's blessing" through conspicuous consumption, the hoarding of gaudy commodities and modern pagan idols to fill the real spiritual void in their heart of hearts.

        • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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          3 years ago

          That's what Protestantism is! Prosperity gospel is the Calvinist idea that riches on Earth are proof of Salvation, and people who are poor or get conquered are clearly not saved.

          • LeninsRage [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Fair enough, but I'd still argue that American Protestants have evolved as very, very different beasts compared to European Protestants. Even the Germans.

            In particular I'd say millennarianism plays a much stronger influence on American Protestantism than European.

            • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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              3 years ago

              Well yeah, Germany has had a different political economy for the past 5 centuries. Compare American evangelicals to Ulster Presbyterians or Afrikaners, and you'll see a lot more similarities.

              Edit: Also, keep in mind "God is with Us" (as he was with our fathers) was a popular Prussian and later Nazi slogan. Any Chud in Ulster, Virginia, Queensland, Texas, or Florida from 1650 to 2021 could easily relate to that. But tell me again about how American evangelicals are uniquely "not Christian" compared to other Prots.

    • black_mold_futures [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      not God-fearing Christians

      actually you're a cuck if you believe the public ideology and can't comprehend the private ideology (i.e the material conditions that benefit their slave states)