Peter Nimmo<p>Trump isn't religious, but he has to give something to his far right religious <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fundamentalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fundamentalist</span></a> base. That means that other <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> will find their beliefs under attack. He's cutting funding to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/refugee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>refugee</span></a> agencies run by Catholics, Protestants and other religious groups</p>
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A Faith Under Siege<p>In a region once celebrated as the post-Soviet “Bible Belt,” a rapidly growing community of Evangelical and Protestant believers becomes a prime target under Russia’s expanding occupation—enduring seized churches, tortured pastors, and abducted children as they struggle to keep their faith alive in secret.</p><p>This is "A Faith Under Siege: Russia’s Hidden War on Ukraine’s <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> — a gripping new documentary uncovering the truth.</p><p>🎬 Learn more about the film—link in bio.</p><p><a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a></p>
🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll<p>I’m very disappointed that Christian-American <a href="https://babka.social/tags/HeritageMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageMonth</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/XAHM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XAHM</span></a> was canceled this year!</p><p>It’s SO important to recognize other people among us here in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>, especially when so few have ever actually met any <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a>, or know what <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/practices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>practices</span></a> and/or <a href="https://babka.social/tags/believes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>believes</span></a>, or can even name a single <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/holiday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>holiday</span></a>.</p><p>1/2</p>
FarhadThis is how the Christian Zionists think.<br>
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This is why they don't care at all when Israel kills Christian Palestinians, this is why they don't care when Israel kill American citizens. This is why they don't care when Israel commit war crimes. <br>
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For them Israel is above all laws and can not be criticized. PERIOD. <br>
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And if you call them "Israeli firsters" you will face accusation of antisemitism (even though they are not Jewish). <br>
<a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/christianzionists?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#christianzionists</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Israel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Politics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/USPol?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Christians?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christians</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/WarCrime?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarCrime</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Israelifirsters?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israelifirsters</a>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2015145/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2015145/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Pope Francis: Paris Notre-Dame cathedral bells ring out 88 times in tribute • FRANCE 24 English <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/announced" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>announced</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catholics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Channel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Channel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Coverage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coverage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/dies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dies</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FRANCE24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FRANCE24</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FRANCE24English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FRANCE24English</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FranceNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranceNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/france24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france24</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FRANCE24English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FRANCE24English</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FrenchNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JorgeMarioBergoglio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JorgeMarioBergoglio</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Migrants</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewsFrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsFrance</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PontiffFrance24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PontiffFrance24</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopeFrancis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopeFrancis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Religi%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religión</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tv</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vatican</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Vid%C3%A9os" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vidéos</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Youtube</span></a></p>
sheislaurence<p>I find it very moving to see all these closet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> do their religious coming out in the wake of the death of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopeFrancis</span></a>. Most of them <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> of all kinds, from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a>, using this liminal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Easter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Easter</span></a> to celebrate the teachings of that brown Middle Eastern radical leftist called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a>. Now the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pope</span></a> has died, it is up to them to show fierce courage in reclaiming their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>faith</span></a> and resilience in their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compassion</span></a>. Because there's no one left to do it for them.</p>
Nonilex<p>Several <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> & 2 small businesses sued in federal court in Texas in 2020 to challenge the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPSTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPSTF</span></a>,'s structure. It is the latest in a years-long series of challenges to the 2010 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, Pres <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a>'s signature <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legislative</span></a> achievement, to reach <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a>.</p><p>If the justices uphold the lower court's ruling, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> associations said in a filing, life-saving tests & treatments that have been cost-free would become subject to co-pays & deductibles.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PreventiveCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PreventiveCare</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/?p=2014338" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/?p=2014338</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Pope Francis condemned Israel’s war against Hamas in months before death – Israel News <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CatholicChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CatholicChurch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IsaacHerzog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsaacHerzog</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopeFrancis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vatican</span></a></p>
Jay<p>Since 2022, <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/russians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russians</span></a> have killed 67 priests<br>and destroyed about 700 churches of various denominations in <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>.</p><p>Of all nations on earth, it's only <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> that feels the need to spend billions a year convincing the world that they are <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a>. </p><p>We know why.</p>
Susan Ville<p>📌 Vatican News <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livestream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livestream</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popefrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>popefrancis</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catholic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6MqpK91bEA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=J6MqpK91bEA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Susan Ville<p>🕯️ A Jesuit, a church reformer and a righteous human being - his last appeal was for peace and justice in the Middle East, Asia and Africa - may he rest in peace</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a> </p><p>📑 Prime source: Vatican, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rome</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/20</span><span class="invisible">25-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html</span></a></p>
Daniel Dvorkin<p>On "real Christians."</p><p>This is a lightly edited version of a post I first made several years ago on Facebook. Sadly, it never seems to stop being relevant.</p><p>===</p><p>Every time I hear <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> saying "they're not real Christians" or "this isn't real <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a>," about other Christians doing something that brings discredit on the #<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>, my skin crawls.</p><p>Because if they're not Christians ... well, neither was Constantine. Neither were the generations of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/monarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monarchs</span></a> who followed, invoking the divine right of kings. Neither were the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/popes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>popes</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/bishops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bishops</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/priests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>priests</span></a>—and note that I'm not just talking about <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholics</span></a> here—who almost universally supported and legitimized the idea that <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>God</span></a> had put our leaders in place, and to oppose them was <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/blasphemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blasphemy</span></a>.</p><p>Neither were the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Crusaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crusaders</span></a>, the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Inquisitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquisitors</span></a>, the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/witch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witch</span></a>-burners. Neither were the soldiers who fought generations of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/wars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wars</span></a> within <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Christendom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christendom</span></a>, including the Thirty Years' War that wrought devastation equal to both World Wars. Neither for that matter were the politicians who gave us what we *call* the First World War, in which most of the major combatants on both sides proudly claimed the Christian label, and in several cases were still official theocracies.</p><p>Neither were the Christians who rounded up their <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> neighbors in the Second for delivery to the camps—and if you claim that was the work of a <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/neopagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neopagan</span></a> cult that maybe a few thousand people total ever took seriously, I'll laugh in your face before cutting you out of my life. (But I'll remember who and what you are, believe me.) Neither were the people who used Christianity to justify <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/conquest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conquest</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a>, for centuries, and in many cases still do.</p><p>In short, if you say these people aren't Christians, you're saying most Christians throughout the *entire history of the religion* weren't Christians. You can die on that hill if you really want to. But you'll die alone, and most likely at the hands of your fellow believers.</p><p>Christians are, as a rule, no worse than other people. But you're no better, either. Do you *want* to be better? Great, that's what everyone else wants too.</p><p>So prove it. Stop making excuses. Own these people, and *then* confront them. Admit that they're yours, and then expunge them. Scourge the heretics with fire and sword, and send them wailing into the outer darkness tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth. Cast them into the lake of fire.</p><p>If you do this, if you have first the moral and then the physical courage to face this monstrosity in your midst unflinchingly and with full knowledge of what it is, then you'll have plenty of help. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muslims</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Hindus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hindus</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Wiccans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wiccans</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/atheists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheists</span></a> and all the rest won't just cheer you on. We'll be right there by your side.</p><p>And while there are in the US still more Christians than all of us put together, there aren't more of *this kind* of Christian than all decent human beings put together. We can't fight them alone. Neither can you. Together we can—as long as you're honest about what that means.</p><p>If you don't? We'll be right back to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Torquemada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Torquemada</span></a>, with a high-tech gloss. You might live a little longer than the rest of us, but not by much, and you'll go to the rack and the stake and the oven with the words of your own holy writ shouted in your ears.</p><p>Those are the only two options. Your choice.</p><p>===</p><p>Addendum:</p><p>I have a great many friends who grew up Christian, and left the religion at some point. Despite having made the choice to walk away from their childhood faith, they often feel the reflexive need to defend the people they were, and in most cases their families still are.</p><p>Those who are still Christians, of whom I trust I also have a fair number left, may feel the same impulse—although interestingly, it seems to me they're less reflexive on the whole than the former believers.</p><p>We're all made of our <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>. The people we were are still the people we are, in some corner of our brains. And there are complexities about being on the inside of any group that outsiders can never quite grasp. It's similar to the way I am about the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a>, which is practically a religion in its own right.</p><p>Okay. Stipulated, as lawyers say on TV and maybe in real life too. I get it. Now please get this:</p><p>Unless you *grew up* as a member of a religious minority, you will most likely never understand, on a gut level, the terror the majority religion inflicts by its very existence.</p><p>This isn't unique to Christianity, to be clear. Every majority religion, in every time and place, has unconsciously (and often consciously as well, to be sure) been casually brutal to infidels and heretics. Nature of the beast. But here in the US, that beast invariably carries a cross, so there's the focus of my attention.</p><p>You don't have to understand it. Just accept that it exists, and it leaves scars. I can live with those scars, and so can nearly everyone else who bears them. That *stigma*, if you will.</p><p>But if you cut us, we still bleed. We'll heal from those wounds too, and add new scars to the old. Long after the bleeding stops, we'll remember who gave them to us.</p><p>Here I stand; I can do no other. How about you?</p>
Bandersnatch<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheConversationUS</span></a></span> </p><p>Most Christians act like they don't believe in their own <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> or that their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deity</span></a> is stupid, so I just assume they are all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dishonest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dishonest</span></a> & act accordingly.</p><p>Hasn't failed me yet.</p><p>If there is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hell</span></a>, I will see those <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypocrite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> there.</p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>How <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Twisted <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> to Only Benefit <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/White" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>White</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a><br>Trump’s crusade against “<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wokeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wokeness</span></a>” is co-opting the language of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> movement to undo its legacy. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/22/trump-dei-christians-woke-civil-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/02/22/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-dei-christians-woke-civil-rights/</span></a></p>
Jay<p>Two of the <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> murdered by <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> today. </p><p>Biblical inscription on sign says:</p><p> "Do not be afraid, am with you, because I am your God".</p><p><a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Sumy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sumy</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1991952/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1991952/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Lebanon: Order of Malta commits to be part of the solution “at any cost” <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EasternChurches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EasternChurches</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/malta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malta</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OrderOfMalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrderOfMalta</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AbandonedAmerica</span></a></span> Abandoned churches will be even more abundant than theaters after <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FakeChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FakeChristians</span></a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> cult cause actual <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/EmptyThePews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmptyThePews</span></a>. 🤷🏻♂️</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tg9541" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tg9541</span></a></span> They get it from the “Atlas Shrugged” novels written by <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> emigrée <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AynRand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AynRand</span></a> (where the ‘hero’ is a character named John Galt). Her hyper-rationalist <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Objectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Objectivism</span></a> philosophy (<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> is a sin) was perversely melded into the ethos of so-called fundamentalist <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> already worshipping <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/prosperity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prosperity</span></a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>.</p><p>I saw an excellent essay on this <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> phenomenon entitled “Who is <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> Galt?” that has since been ‘disappeared’. 🤷🏻♂️</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotComply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotComply</span></a></p>
Leigh Silvester<p>Today is the first time I spotted a phrase to describe the 'Christian' Fundamentalist trying to take over the USA in Trump's wake.</p><p>Others may already have used it but this is the first time I've seen it.</p><p>Faux Right Christians </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FauxRightChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FauxRightChristians</span></a></p><p>Works as they are not actually <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christians</span></a></p><p>I do not subscribe to the view that all Christians are bad, or that religion is the cause of all wars. Reductive nonsense that comes out of the playground school of philosophy. I am not a christian but have some friends who are. One is about to retire from being a bishop.</p>
Shaman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jeffowski</span></a></span> I'd like take a wild guess that his folks are so-called <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a>, just the Republican variety... <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/JustLikeElon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustLikeElon</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/ChristianNationalTaliban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalTaliban</span></a></p>
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