Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him ā€œdonā€™t understandā€ their religion.

ā€œIā€™m 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 Trumpā€™s Christmas post. ā€œIf you are a Christian who supports him you donā€™t understand your own religion.ā€

Kinzinger, one of Trumpā€™s fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that ā€œTrump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he ainā€™t a Christian and heā€™s not ā€˜Godā€™s man.ā€™ā€

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    If we are going that road you could argue that much of the ā€œChristian churchā€ has split pretty far from Christā€™s actual teachings.

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      Sure. Or that the original teachings were all over the place to begin with, because itā€™s 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 thatā€™s what literally happened.

      Eventually the Catholic and Anglican churches decided which books/teachings would be ā€˜correctā€™ 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 Churchā€™s official library has whatā€™s 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 canā€™t agree over whose interpretation is correct, to the point of genocide. But yeah, one sect of evangelical Christianity is ā€˜rightā€™ such that we should all be subjected to it.