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"I don't understand how Christians fall for narcissists"

Pardon me, but have you read the Bible, or even just the commandments? They've been taught their whole lives to worship a narcissist

Evangelicalism encompasses many styles and streams—fundamentalist, holiness, Bible churches—but none are as dynamic and fecund as the Pentecostal sects. Each has a singular approach to MAGA, Trump, and Epstein, but none are more ardent than the Pentecostals. Disparaged as Holy Rollers and Tongues-Talkers for their highly emotional worship and ecstatic prayers, even by fellow born-again believers, numbering approximately 600 million worldwide, with ten percent of them in the US, making them the dominant strain of evangelicals. A subset of Pentecostals, called Charismatics, form the core of MAGA’s religious adherents. Within that group is another theological variant often called the “prosperity gospel,” referring to a teaching that purports health and wealth as marks of divine approval.

Being familiar with these types of Christians here in Australia, this checks out. This particular type always struck me as being emotionally driven (rather than using reason and logic to make decisions). It makes perfect sense that they're the majority of evangelicals that support Trump and MAGA.

Because evangelicals, and by extension most followers of Abrahamic faiths to a lesser or greater extent, have never and will never have any actual principals or morals.

I mean, some people DID care, but they were the swing voters that pushed him over the top, not the core of the base.

All religious people use religion to warp their own reality to that of their choosing, instead of the actual reality that exists.

Of course the religious extremists are using their extremist religion to justify extremely unlawful actions. That's what religions are for. Religions have been doing the exact same things for thousands of years.

The point? Religions and those that support them have zero morality. Their religions tell them to lie, and they do. Their religions tell them to ignore the law, they do. They flip-flop positions as their religions will them to do. They ignore all decency and common sense, as their religions tell them to do.

The religion? A giant corporation that gives impossibly huge handouts to its corporate officers.

The only real thing about religions is the damage to society and individuals. That's very real, and it's constant.

Every time I see one of these evangelicals that old Metallica song pops in my head...

Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet Make a contribution and you'll get a better seat Bow to Leper Messiah

Because they are jealous?