Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They also probably think jesus is white

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are you talking about? Next thing you’re going to say he wasn’t blond and blue-eyed?

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But he did speak English and have a crucifix on a chain around his neck, right?

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    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I gotta say, of all the Jesuses, Korean Jesus is my favorite. Bro is ripped for your sins

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    • darctiger88@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He might have been, those features aren’t unheard of in that part of the world. My Greek husband was born with blond hair and has green eyes, his parents have blue eyes. He probably wasn’t, but even a minority of Palestinians are blonde.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They think St George was British

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      English, he was English!!

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Christians are like the least Christian people so I’m not surprised.

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• Piatro@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s almost like their supposed beliefs aren’t sincerely held and they are nominally attaching themselves to that belief system to lend credibility to whatever they want to spread. This post is about MAGA, people with “legitimate concerns” about immigration while rioting and destroying livelihoods, and about these fucks.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lovely. I haven’t met many of these people (probably because the place I go to interact with Christians is Church) but from rare experiences, trying to discuss theology with these people is often quite difficult. There was someone online, albeit from a different country, who joined a Christian group chat and had a vitriolic hatred of muslims. We kept trying to correct him on his behaviour, and then he ended up leaving (whatever his version was of) Christianity because we weren’t letting him have a vitriolic hatred of muslims.

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• Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Calling them Christians is insulting and I’m an atheist.

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let me correct your statement slightly.

  “Most probably can’t read.”

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• Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  religion is primarily a tool used by the ruling class (or those attempting to become the ruling class) to manipulate the masses to their own ends

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• AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I doubt most can read at all

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What did you say?!

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    • StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard

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• abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is anyone even surprised? This seems very par for the course for religious extremists. A lot of Islamic extremists terrorists were previously things like Drug dealers or or such who rarely appeared at Mosques.

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• CharlesDarwin1809@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  An animated GIF of Fry from Futurama saying "I'm shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked".

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• SalvationSeeker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In my experience most Christians try to sellout their own kind to appease the non-believers

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  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’ve posted to say that women without kids should be restricted in the workplace.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is this some new information war .ml is waging?

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    • SalvationSeeker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What does that have to do with the comment that I made here?

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a weird statement.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Elaborate?

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• Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most Christians probably have never read the Bible? Have you? I have and it’s… a challenge.

  And Christians mostly follow the New Testament, btw, not the Bible.

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have little doubt that the percentage of atheists who’ve read the whole bible is significantly larger than the percentage of people who call themselves christians who have done so, and still larger than the percentage of them who’ve only read the new testament.

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  • BitUnWise@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When talking about Christianity, the Bible refers to both the old and new testament. And while Christians don’t typically follow the “laws” in the old testament, it is still a huge part of Christianity

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    • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess it depends on a few factors, but yeah. Christians aren’t really required to read their holy texts anyway, the clergy have always been the “interface” to the scripture, for… Reasons.

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They just take what supports their ideology and ignore all the rest.

  And to be honest, it’s actually quite a decent way of living. But then you also have to accept teachings from other religions as well as atheism. Otherwise you’re just a selfish cunt.

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• PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In-group vs out-group is all it is, modern day tribalism. And calling oneself a Christian patriot is nothing more than a less outspokenly racist way of idenitfying as a white supremacist.

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a MEGA movement? Jeebus help us all

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• ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m actually kinda surprised. I figured people go to church to learn how to be racist. If you didn’t have a bunch of bigots around you telling you how to hate the other, you probably wouldn’t have that attitude. And fuck knows, Christians can certainly do bigotry proud.

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