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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[-] 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.