Reply To: Is it really because you are the problem?

[Iron Age]

Gurnelista wrote:

Truss lacks any sense of the ridiculous. She and those like her are full of their own sense of entitlement, and seek constant admiration to bolster their egos. They have 0% self-awareness, but 100% self-confidence and 100% self-delusion, so they just blunder on arrogantly.

There are lots in public life, Trump, Johnson, Farage… and to some extent it has got them where they are today.

But another thing is the way the religious extremists on here align themselves with the far-right. This is odd, but digging into it, it’s quite logical.

For them, social divisions are part of a wider battle for Britain; one of Christianity v Islamism.

You can see the fear of Islam in their posts. Remember all the Brexit propaganda from Les and the jonnies about an impending Turkish invasion? And the links to far-right websites? JI telling us ‘we’re at war’, as well as the lunacy of BPG’s videos.

For the extremists on here and elsewhere, their religion is a symbol of identity, allegiance, and insurance for an imaginary afterlife. It’s a passcard to paradise. It’s an intense, cultish subscription which is almost impossible to drop or change. They didn’t choose it, it chose them, and giving up would be like giving up football for tiddlywinks, or worse, like an Iron fan becoming a Mariner!

Despite the ridiculousness of all this, rational argument, evidence and facts have no effect, so all the political extremism of the far-right seems justified in order to ‘save’ Christianity.

It’s reinforced and made worse by right-wing politicians and news sources which play up division and lay it on thick in the cosplay of culture wars, to distract the public from calamitous state of everything at present. It worked with Brexit, just, but it won’t again, as the next election will show.

But the oddest thing seems to be the tendency now to talk about Europe v Islam, when a few years back we were being told about the ‘evil empire’, and how those nasty foreigners were responsible for all our ills! Now it seems the great nations of Europe are our allies! Rank hypocrisy or what? What would Jesus say?

Change a few words here and there and this could quite easily be classed as an antisemitic or islamaphobian rant, or even racist.
Your views are your own and you are entitled to them.
But don’t put all Christians into the right wing group, there are plenty of us that aren’t. Not all Christians belong to the evangelical right wing fundamentalists.
Fundamentalism comes in many packages, Christians, Jews, Moslems, politics and yes atheists.
It’s the belief that one is absolutely right and everyone that disagrees is absolutely wrong.
If you think that Christians are completely against Islam or the Palestinians just look at the churches in Jerusalem, Roman, Anglican, Orthodox and Armenian and see what they are saying, it might surprise you.
The trouble with the right wing evangelical Christian fundamentalists of America is that they don’t represent the wider Christian world.