Remind me who the racist religious bigots are again?
Yeah, I dunno ... calling out an entire group of people for their skin color and religious beliefs seems like something the bad guys do, but then again, I'm a white male Christian so I'm essentially the epitome of evil in Joy Reid's eyes!
She really thinks that a white Christian like me wants to kick all the non-Christian brown people out, and that I voted for Trump twice because of something he can give me. She's so far in her own bubble that she can't see how I might want to vote for a candidate who directly helped overturn Roe, brokered peace in the Middle East, and implemented policies that made our communities and cities more prosperous and safe.
A memo to the woke MSNBC anchors: I don't lump y'all into a category. I see you as individuals. And where I do put you in general categories, I make sure to separate things like your beliefs and culture from immutable physical characteristics like your skin color.
As for the "evangelical" vote, I think it's time Christians ignored the media's idea that we're merely another special interest group that relies on lobbying to advance its interests.
If you are a Christian, you believe that Christ is Lord and that all of society - from your household first, then to the government and nations beyond - should be ordered under that reality. You are not here on earth to play the voting bloc game. Reject such silly categories. There is no "white evangelical Christian." There are those who acknowledge that Christ is Lord and those who do not.
For more on that, I found this Pastor Doug Wilson talk on Church and State to be particularly encouraging and insightful.
(I transcribed the most important part because y'all are awesome and I know most of you won't listen to an hour-long podcast):
Because of individualism and because of the shunting of the Church off to the side, what has happened is that you have a large number of evangelicals in America today who amount to a special interest group. We tend to vote in the same general directions. We tend to have the same political sympathies. Conservative, Bible-believing evangelicals are identifiable and have been identified by politicos as a group with common interests. As soon as they make that identification, it's about 15 minutes before they're pitching it to us. And when they pitch it to us, how do we talk to Washington? ... In a previous generation, the leaders of the Church would have just met ... the archbishop would have gone to talk to the king, or the assembly would have sent a delegation, or John Knox would have gone to have a conference with Mary, Queen of Scotts ...
So you'd have a representative of the Church speaking on behalf of the Church as a churchman. Now we are absolutely prohibited from doing that. Consequently, what we do is speak to Washington on the same principles and by the same means that gun rights advocates do, Big Tobacco does, the National Organization of Women does. We are a pressure group; we hire lobbyists. And this is how our argument goes: "Look, this is what we would like and there are a lot of us." That's the argument. No one, I mean absolutely no one goes to Washington and says, 'Thus says the Lord God Almighty, King of heaven and earth, and then speaks the word of God.' ... What would happen to someone who spoke that way?
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