A young white Southern Christian man slaughtered 8 people in a racist attack on Asian women. This is hard. Another white Christian killer. When will it end? Why do I think it will end? Another white Christian bigoted killer terrorist. It goes on and on.
Why?
What do Fundamentalist Christians in the South (and around the country) get taught?
- To admire and perhaps worship a racist, authoritarian, fascist president - as a model of what it is to be a man.
- That as Christians they are persecuted even though they are the rulers not the ruled
- That they have been chosen by God Himself to work God's will - as defined by the racist authoritarian preachers propagandizing them
- That they are "in the world but not of the world" - and the world is anyone different than their white selves
- That sex is sinful and Satan tempts virtuous young men to sin - and therefore women are tools of Satan
- That to be a good manly Christian they need guns and the willingness to kill
- That God is vindictive, and so should you be vindictive
- That Christ will return and burn the sinful world to the ground because the non White Christian world deserves to be destroyed by --- Jesus?
People are being taught, propagandized, brainwashed into believing that a twisted destructive model of manhood and spirituality are goals to attain to. This has nothing to do with the actual teachings and life of Jesus Christ himself, whose radical message to the world was of gentleness and love.
Put the teachings of Christ into the hands of a violent chauvinist white supremacist on a pulpit and you get white supremacist Christian terrorists who kill and kill and kill and....
