How far will evangelicals fall...?

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[JHB]

1. All the way.

[Sherman A1]

2. They haven't already????

[Hortensis]

11. Depends on the individual evangelical, doesn't it?

Just for one big instance, there are LOTS of black evangelicals. Smearing them with all the rest would fit the definition of bigot of a lot of people here. Accidentally of course.

Then there are other groups. Like evangelical Christian Democrats for just one who may also be a minority among evangelicals but really don't deserve bigoted smearing with the whole.

[dewsgirl]

3. I am beginning to think they are mostly all grifters.

They understand they are wrong, they just don't care.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. I've thought this for decades. Liars, gaslighters, manipulators

for personal profit.

Part of Deplorable Swamp

[dewsgirl]

7. But the people that send them money, some must believe.

I would think. The last 4 years have turned me even further from religion then I already was.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. yes, that's the sad part.

[dewsgirl]

15. I always thought like the 700 club was somewhat real.

Boy was I ever wrong. I have learned more in the last 4 years than I ever learned in the previous 38 yrs since I was born. I had no clue there was so much hate, and so many people that are only out for themselves.😳

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. I've made the same journey.

63 years old, pretty much agnostic for the last 15-20. Use of organized religion as a weapon and hypocrisy *cured" me!

[dewsgirl]

19. Me too.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Religion and politics use each other to gain power and wealth.

[polichick]

4. Organized religions have always been led by con men...

and always been supported by fearful, brainwashed people.

The good news is these extremes are helping some people see the con.

[get the red out]

8. +1

Very true.

[lpbk2713]

6. OMFG

[11 Bravo]

9. I'm thinking Paradise Lost.

[skypilot]

10. I think the question you mean to ask is...

...how LOW will they go.

[Aristus]

12. Who knows?

Every time they hit bedrock, they get out a pick and shovel and keep going...

[Vinca]

14. If Pastor Hank is hallucinating, he should see a doctor.

[defacto7]

16. How does he know it was God?

Oh yes, I know, the gift of discernment. I have the gift of knowing in fact that he actually has the gift of self delusion.

[Initech]

18. They fell off the deep end years ago.

They're circling the bottom of the Marianus Trench at this point.

[delisen]

20. To the Gates of Hell where they are clamoring to return home from whence they came.

[Talitha]

21. "How far will evangelicals fall...?"

About as far as any cult member can, I guess.
Hopefully some of them will be able to snap out of it.

[GulfCoast66]

23. There is a reason non religious now outnumber evangelicals.

For the first time ever.

Their kind of batshit crazy beliefs don’t hold up in an educated, multicultural world which more and more Americans live in.

I’m not just making a supposition but stating personal experience.

I grew up in the middle sized city South as an evangelical. Moved to Central Florida, met different people, travel internationally and most importantly was introduced to the writings of Hume. Perhaps the greatest English speaking philosopher ever. Now I’m a freethinker and rationalist.

Once I realized that the beliefs I came up with are followed by a tiny group of Christians worldwide I started thinking.

I have no doubt had I been raised in a more mainline Christian tradition where it was easy to believe in science and have faith I might still go to church and believe. But my evangelical upbringing made me examine my beliefs to their root and I came the conclusion it was all bullshit. Because to believe the world is 6000 years old, that the entire earth flooded 4000 years ago and some dude built a boat to save all the animals and so on and so forth...

You have to be able to deny reality.

So their is no depth to the level these people will sink to uphold their narrative of the world.

Our best hope is they will once again disengage from the political world and go back to their shrinking world of delusion. But they are our biggest threat. People who believe they have god in the camp are capable of anything.