> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 2 topics, 14 evergreens</em></s> #### [[The Politicization of the Christian Church]] The modern church is focused on building a [[counter-culture]] movement that is loyal to a fault. [[homophobia]] takes sin from the realm of actions to lifestyle, [[creationism]] erodes peoples [[faith]] in science, [[abortion]] forces people to vote for one political party without even caring about the rest of its platform. I just see Christians being taken advantage of time and time again because they believe so deeply: [[The church will fail if christians keep aligning themselves with hate instead of love]] Christians are especially weak to this because [[The Christian worldview is incompatible with most other worldviews]] and [[You will never be pushed to understand marginalization unless you are part of a marginalized group]]. [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] Christian's have had one of the highest #TO/TEND/WATER more about christians privilege since [[Reagan]] #TO/TEND/GRAFT - [[Evangelicalism has commodified faith for profit]] - [[Non-faith issues have been co-opted to keep people in the Christian church]] - ex: How [[Ronald Reagan invented modern conservatism]] - [[The moral majority movement was the original 'making things political']] - [[Single issue voters are anti-democratic]] - [[The Christian worldview is incompatible with most other worldviews]] - [[People have been conditioned to believe the bible has to be infallible]] - ex: [[The bible is god breathed]] - [[The church will fail if christians keep aligning themselves with hate instead of love]] ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SAPLING **Topics**:: [[Christianity]], [[Politics]], [[religion]]