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The Jesus people love it when Americas army support Israel The racists love it when Muslims get killed

• PsylentKnight 8mo ago
  Having grown up deep in the Bible belt, I can say that there's often a lot of overlap between the Jesus people and the various -ists Bigotry has been a big part of the Moral Majority's platform for decades for a reason - it works on that demographic I have an armchair theory about one possible contributing factor These are two of the most fundamental beliefs of evangelicals and they don't make much sense when you put them side-by-side: 1. God is the ultimate progenitor and prototype of love 2. God wants to torture a LOT of people forever, some of whom you may know personally and may be all appearances be decent people This creates a certain amount of cognitive dissonance Rather than reconsider those beliefs (which may result in your own everlasting torment), it's far easier to resolve that discomfort by dehumanizing non-Christians. Maybe they're actually really rotten people that deserve to be tortured