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Feb 4 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#EvangelicalismIsUnreformable because it is authoritarian in nature. They believe "whoever is not with me, is against me" and so they work to crush anything they oppose or anyone who even dare oppose the most minor thing in the church. 1/
#EvangelicalismIsUnreformable because it's ALWAYS been political. To preserving slavery, and later segregation, and now to the destruction of democracy, Evangelicalism has been a political powerhouse. More so in the last few decades. 2/
#EvangelicalismIsUnreformable because it believes that there are people that are not whole people. "Sinners," women, Democrats, LGTBQ people, minorities, etc. are always lesser people. They are enemies to be destroyed or saved. Evangelicalism cannot exist without enemies. 3/
#EvangelicalismIsUnreformable because it believes in using concepts of heaven and hell as carrot and stick. There must always be folks going to hell and there must always be heavenbound "good Christians." That's how their book ends. That book can't exist without the ending. 4/
#EvangelicalismIsUnreformable because it gets special treatment in the West. When something like that loses it's special treatment, it is mistaken for persecution and oppression. Persecution complex is like a drug to Evangelicals, always looking for the next fix. 5/

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