A huge amount of America is Baptist Christian and believes Israel needs to be at war for Jesus to come back etc. How impactful is this to real life? (hexbear.net)

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Is American foreign policy always a cool rational neoliberal calculation or do the delusions of the general public have meaningful impact?

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

If you live in the American South they’re impossible to avoid. They’re everywhere.

It’s not just Baptists, Evangelicalism is a vague coalition across sects, but Baptists tend to be some of the worst. Especially Southern Baptists, the church that exists because the Baptist Church went “You know I think slavery is bad” and they wanted to keep owning people.

[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Backing this up because people don't realize:

how prevalent this is in the south
how many of these people hold prominent governmental positions in the south
how generally acceptable it is to be one of these fascists

It's very, very, very bad

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

Genuinely if I had my way people associated with the Southern Baptist church would be so oppressed that I should have difficulty running for public office just because my grandma was one and she took me to church as a kid.

Anyone with strong ties to that church needs re-education and lifelong monitoring. Most of the leaders, including nearly every pastor, should be given the fucking wall.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

:FAI: yes-hahaha-yes-l

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

It's actually worse, if memory serves. The Baptists didn't decide slavery was bad for everyone they simply decided that the preachers shouldn't own slaves, what with the whole "envoys of christ" angle they play from the pulpit. That was a bridge too far and thus the Southern Baptists were created.

stalin-gun-1 for the SBC.