Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him ādonāt understandā their religion.
āIām going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,ā Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trumpās Christmas post. āIf you are a Christian who supports him you donāt understand your own religion.ā
Kinzinger, one of Trumpās fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that āTrump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he aināt a Christian and heās not āGodās man.āā
Iām not sure what distinction youāre trying to make. Heās saying these Christians donāt understand their religion, as in theyāre not following what he thinks Christianity is supposed to be. Thatās the very definition of the āno true Scotsmanā fallacy.
Youāre doing it too, honestly. What you learned in Sunday school doesnāt match how these republicans are interpreting it, so theyāre not following the real teachings.
Iām saying you can look through the history of the official stances of the Christian church and find many, many examples of sanctioned atrocities. You may not like it, but Christianity has never been whatās printed on the tin.
If we are going that road you could argue that much of the āChristian churchā has split pretty far from Christās actual teachings.
Sure. Or that the original teachings were all over the place to begin with, because itās an amalgamation of various regional beliefs and stories meant to gain political and social control over areas it spread to, adopting and bastardising random beliefs it encountered. Because thatās what literally happened.
Eventually the Catholic and Anglican churches decided which books/teachings would be ācorrectā based on what whomever was in charge at the time wanted. There are many books that were included or excluded from the bible because they were convenient or inconvenient, and the end result was a weird, inconsistent mess. The Catholic Churchās official library has whatās now considered banned texts that were official canon a few centuries ago. What changed that made them wrong? Politics.
And of course the three major Abrahamic religions canāt agree over whose interpretation is correct, to the point of genocide. But yeah, one sect of evangelical Christianity is ārightā such that we should all be subjected to it.