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[–]FreakyFalangistNational Catholicism 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Anyone who holds any notion that merely identifying as a "Christian" has any real socio-political significance these days is a fool.

I can only speak as to my own denomination, which is riddled with problems both institutionally and in the last half century theologically, but the percentage of practicing Catholics who follow the five basic precepts of the faith to remain in good standing is abysmally low.

A gallup poll conducted in 2012 found that 82 percent of American Catholics believe that Birth Control is morally acceptable making them formal heretics if they are aware of the Church's teaching on the matter.

Another Pew Research study found that just 1/3 of American Catholics even believe in Transubstantiation

Why am I using the Catholic Church as an example? If the majority of American Catholics don't even hold to the well established teachings of Catholicism, the sky's the limit with the theological free for all that is Protestantism. Most Americans are frankly too individualistic to let even their own religious affiliation actually reflect in their beliefs or actions.

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Anyone who holds any notion that merely identifying as a "Christian" has any real socio-political significance these days is a fool.

When you live in Europe, where hate speech laws are a thing, then framing your opinions as "christian" and your political resistance as "religious resistance" , you shield yourself from a lot of legal trouble, and even better, leftists can be targeted by our hate speech laws if they start attacking christianity or the fact that I'm a christian stated negatively.
It also makes it hard for them to frame political resistance as "hateful" because then they're calling your religion hateful (or you can frame it as such) which is on the edge of allowable speech in public.

There is also nothing better than calling leftists hateful and to tell them to embrace love and use their pathetic language and speech patterns against them. They know that they're acting in bad faith when they use that kind of language but normies don't.

And honestly, the more I repeat that leftists are hateful, the more I believe it and the more morally justified do I feel in my own opinions.

[–]FreakyFalangistNational Catholicism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course. As I'm sure you're aware there are similar protections in the US under the 1st amendment. However, most that identify as Christian are not going to be using their protected religious status to fight for change and on the occasion Christians do, usually our constitution and laws regarding religious freedom are blatantly ignored.

A great example is the Covid vaccine mandate where thousands of Americans in both the private and public sector were not allowed to receive an exemption from the atrocious mandate even with a valid religious exemption. Christian bakers being forced to bake LGBT wedding cakes etc. Not to discount any of the few legal victories that do occur from time to time, just that most self-professed "Christians" are not the type to use their religion to fight for their spiritual wellbeing, let alone follow Christian moral teaching.