Yeah one of the ways evangelical Christianity messes you up is it actively pushes you to rewrite history and memory They give you a universal life script (sin, repentance, salvation) and tell you to remember your life that wayhttps://twitter.com/mcjulie/status/1348682609384067072 …
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And because so much of this narrative is internal and invisible it's really easy to do You get tons of extremely pat narratives about how anything that went wrong in your life was a test or a punishment for unaddressed sin, and then God took care of it as soon as you prayed
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This is just why I'm generally averse to "spirituality" in this vein even divorced from theology It is very important to understand, as the writer of Ecclesiastes did, that everything does NOT happen for a reason
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The sense of control and comfort people get from having something to thank when things go well is not, in my view, worth the burden of being Job and being stuck looking for a reason when things go wrong
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Yeah. I think it's actually why spiritual-but-not-religious is WORSE than most forms of organized religion. It means you can cheat without ever having a system to hold yourself accountable.
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Modern evangelical Christianity is far closer to that than it is to say, the Catholic Church. Doctrine, theology, morality - all adaptable moment by moment, with no structure to do anything about it.
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Yeah as much shit as I talk about it, and as scary in hindsight as it was to grow up surrounded by people with memorized Bible passages talking all the time about demons and the end times and the Holy Spirit, none of that is necessary to be a bad and dangerous person
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My read on the MAGA crowd is that actual, committed evangelicals or even people who just actually do go to church every Sunday are a minority among them They strongly identify as "Christian" while being fine living that secular hard-drinking fucking-around life
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And in some ways that's much more dangerous - their "Christian" identity is intensely focused not on what they are but what other people are not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
Always be careful about people where their ideology completely leaves out the possibility of being in the wrong about something.
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