> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 1 topic, 8 evergreens</em></s> #### [[Non-faith issues have been co-opted to keep people in the Christian church]] [[Homophobia]], [[evolution]], [[abortion]] and lot of other non-[[faith]] issues have been used to keep people in the faith, and separated from the world with zero biblical backing. These issues do not affect anyone's personal relationship with [[god]], but because [[People have been conditioned to believe the bible has to be infallible]] they do produce a strong emotional response and have been used as [[propaganda]] to keep people in the church: The main benefit from doing this comes down to [[Politics]] and [[The Politicization of the Christian Church]]: [[Single issue voters are anti-democratic]]. [[Republican voters do not hold their leaders accountable]], [[Abortion and immigration are detrimental to white supremacy]] #TO/TEND/DEOBFUSCATE To people who believe [[The bible is god breathed]], this [[propaganda]] can be very confusing, because it is often supported by scripture, ^[[[The biblical Christian God is evil and does not deserve to be worshipped]]] but the beliefs are obviously against the teaching of Jesus Christ. ^[[[Are Jesus' teachings antithetical to the modern Christian church]]] Because [[Christians struggle to feel empathy because they must believe that non-christians are going to hell]], so these feelings can be really hard to understand. It is hard to understand why the bible would be so confusing if it is "[[The bible is god breathed | god breathed]]," so Christians invent [[rationalizations]] around it: [[Faith is an abstraction of cognitive dissonance]] Individual Christians can't be fully blamed, because [[People have been conditioned to believe the bible has to be infallible]], but the bottom line is [[The church will fail if christians keep aligning themselves with hate instead of love]] ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/GREEN *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[Christianity]], [[political strategy]], [[Deconstruction (Christianity)]], [[faith]], [[belief systems]]