It struck me recently that conservatives who claim they are "Christian" but are basically racists and believe in rightwing lies all the time either don't know it--because it is so ingrained in their subconscious or unconscious or whatever we may want to call it or blatantly do know it and just lie about it or they are part of a "team" and their "team" needs to win at all costs.
It is the last point I want to address here because I think this one has a lot of validity and these alleged "Christian conservatives" will "take one for the team" (lie, cheat, steal and vote Republican) even when they realize that the people they are voting for are destroying their lives, too (but for them on the "plus" side, they know this will destroy your life, too. So, they have this messed up idea that by bringing others down to their level, somehow it is OK.) They do this because they don't want to admit that the "cause" they have supported or the candidates they support are just a bunch of liars who are using them. Not only are they being manipulated (and in many cases, loving it!), but their jobs are being outsourced or their wages and benefits are being cut, they are being told to hate the minorities, while the ones telling them this are getting richer and richer off of their paranoia and hatred. So, they are not in any way, shape or form being a Christian.
When I mention that they love being manipulated--they do. Any new conspiracy theory or old one that has been debunked, these conservative "Christians" will be on the front lines parroting the new lies and attacking you for asking questions about them. If you don't automatically believe in the latest rightwing lie or retooled debunked lie, you are not a "Christian". Yes, something is wrong with you! Not with the True Believers! Because if the "True Believing Christians" start to question rightwing Republican lies, their world will begin to fall apart and if that happens, then they believe they may "lose their faith". Actually, I think at that point, that is where they may actually begin to be redeemed and will be able to have faith--because certainly they do not have any kind of faith in God now. Their only faith is to the almighty Republican lie machine and dollar which they support and protect.
I watched a movie called "The Chamber" recently. It really wasn't a good movie but it did point out some realities. It was about a racist (inferred that he was a member of the Klan) and he was involved in bombings and blowing up a law office in which two young children were killed. He was on death row and his grandson was trying to save him from execution. What the movie showed is this character knew his bomb didn't blow up the office and kill the boys, it was someone else. But, since the organizational ties were so strong, he would not "rat" on his people that set him up as a fall guy. He would rather be executed, go to his death, then tell the truth and he believed he was a "Christian".
This is similar to the modern conservative or Republican. They won't admit that they agreed to invade a country that didn't have "weapons of mass destruction" which killed thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. They will lie and argue with you about how it was the right thing to do to stop terrorism (Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, but our friend, Saudi Arabia did and Bush's family friend the Sultan of Saudi Arabia's family did). These people would rather die, than admit to the truth. Believing in blatant lies is one thing, promoting them as the truth is taking it to another level. And, if you are reading, there is nothing Christian about that.
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