Stop this Obama-era “they go low, we go high” bullshit! It didn’t even work in those days, it’s just Mitt Romney was both a charisma vacuum, and unlike Trump didn’t hide his theocratic ambitions under multiple layers of post-irony.
All this “they’re not real christians” bullshit led to is the disappearance of religious criticism, and the right immediately hijacking every talking points on what a “good christian” should look like, to further push their theocratic fascism. Secularism? Now it’s a radical christian ideology, because “Obama likes his neighbor”, so we have to accept theocratic fascism, because coMmON SeNsE. At worst this is being pushed so much into the extremes, that nowadays people think christianity was the first (!) religion to outlaw murder, pedophilia, etc.
Are islamist terrorists “fake muslims”, who probably get drunk every day? Are the hindu extremists of India “fake hindus” for being awful to the muslim population? Was Stalin a “fake atheist” for persecuting the church? FUCK NO! All you’re doing is giving an excuse to religious extremists by excluding them from religion the moment they’re not adhering to the model religious person stereotype, so the next generation of them can continue the same fucking bullshit, all because “good christian Obama liked his muslim and atheist neighbor”, and we continue handling the power of irrationalism to theocratic fascists in the hopes of a second Obama.
"We must allow a theocrat to rise to power, because what if there would be a theocrat that would use my interpretation of christianity, which is about kindness and good things, would rise to power?"🤡
For every “love thy neighbor” quote, there’s a quote about violent conversion. For every “pedos must be thrown into the river with a stone tied to them”, there’s a “menstrual marriage”. And while the “turn the other cheek” sounds nice out of context, it was about slaves. These theocrats see you as their literal slaves (!), and I’ve seen my fair share of alt right shitheads using the full quote to justify their tactic of “we go low, you go high”, and then to mock the people who fall for them.