Thread 17896110

What the fuck is wrong with evangelical Christians? They worship in the worst possible way then piss themselves at everyone else except for Jews whom they love for some reason.

>>17896110 (OP)
Evangelicals focus on strict biblical interpretation, which leads to judgmental attitudes... except toward Jews, since they believe modern Israel fulfills prophecy.

>>17896110 (OP)
They're lost, just like how cube worshiping Muslims are lost. These religions had a point, but most don't remember what it is anymore.

There are a few reasons:

Theologically, Evangelical Christianity is heavily influenced by earlier US calvinist movements. It has an emphasis on Sola Fide, instead of good works, but also believes in the total depravity of man. This leads to a hyper individualistic worldview where only unearned grace can lead to salvation, and human life has little impact on ones ultimate eternal state. Because they are still human and have anxiety about the future, they look for substitute indicators of God's beneficence like material prosperity as proof of election, leading to the hyper materialist and individualist prosperity theology (which is just a spiritualized form of the darwinism they so claim to hate).

This hyper individualism is further exacerbated by their historical role of frontier pioneer, where there was legitimate social danger from competing groups along with prolonged isolation, causing cultural paranoia that's persisted to this day through the form of right wing conspiracist groups like the John Birch society (very ironic given that there was significant communist infiltration in the US, only they were the ones being infiltrated by internationalist trotskyites, leading to the neocon movement that so deeply contributed to American decline), and it's contemporary incarnation of qanon

>>17896125
Evangelicals don't have a magisterium or professional theologist class and rely on personal literal interpretation of the Bible causing them to have a literalist and millenarianist view of the end times. Meaning they believe that Israel as a state must exist and rebuild the third temple to immanetize the eschaton and bring about the end of evil and suffering. this is then translated into actual popular democratic support for Zionist ideology, which in turn also influences evangelical culture with its apartheid and Jewish supremacist ideology. Evangelical leaders in the US government also heavily funded the wahabbist movements within the Arab world to head up communist influence during the Cold war, which greatly contributed to the global jihadist movement.

Very underrated angle, but some circles in evangelical Christianity have been heavily influenced by wahabbist ideology within the last 20 years. this is most clearly seen within the Christian Dominionist movement. they've grown to emulate the Muslims they spent decades overseas fighting

>>17896113
>except toward Jews, since they believe modern Israel fulfills prophecy.
Those who claim to be Jews today have zero connection to the biblical people group of Israel. Technically, believers are God's people and they do fulfill prophecy, but the people claiming to be Israel who follow the Talmud have nothing to do with that. See the following:

"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."
- 1 John 2:22-23

The NCC did a study on Christian Zionism. I'll save you some reading. Their conclusion: it's bad

>>17896110 (OP)
>tranimefag

>>17896110 (OP)
That's a good question. It's weird looking at the glory of medieval Catholicism contrasted against post modern, self denigrating prots.