Exposing hypocrisy is always a losing strategy, but it’s doubly so when trying to apply it to Christians and white evangelicals in particular (I know she’s Catholic but I think she’s trying to reach those white evangelicals.
It’s because white evangelicalism - which something like 25% of Americans identify with - can barely be called a “religion”. It’s more like, part of the superstructural glue that holds white settler colonialism together. Actual beliefs don’t matter to them. They just take what they want to be true - and whatever upholds white supremacy - and justify it later. If you can find something in the Bible about it… great. If not, they can still find a way to make their own beliefs into doctrine.
It’s about being in the club. They don’t actually believe in sin - evil is when you’re not white, straight, cis, conservative. Everyone who is those things has a free pass.
It certainly makes a lot more sense when you examine it as a religion of capital and white supremacism with the superficial trappings of Christianity rather than the other way around.
Exposing hypocrisy is always a losing strategy, but it’s doubly so when trying to apply it to Christians and white evangelicals in particular (I know she’s Catholic but I think she’s trying to reach those white evangelicals.
It’s because white evangelicalism - which something like 25% of Americans identify with - can barely be called a “religion”. It’s more like, part of the superstructural glue that holds white settler colonialism together. Actual beliefs don’t matter to them. They just take what they want to be true - and whatever upholds white supremacy - and justify it later. If you can find something in the Bible about it… great. If not, they can still find a way to make their own beliefs into doctrine.
They’re religious but not spiritual.
It’s about being in the club. They don’t actually believe in sin - evil is when you’re not white, straight, cis, conservative. Everyone who is those things has a free pass.
It certainly makes a lot more sense when you examine it as a religion of capital and white supremacism with the superficial trappings of Christianity rather than the other way around.