Thread by @KrisAtLarge

my friend @ArmlessKittyfox gets straight to the point: all Christians, at some point, have to take a measure of responsibility in the general crimes and destruction wrought by Christianity. Christians have so far *fled* from their own extremists. they've shown no courage.

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https://twitter.com/ArmlessKittyfox/status/1633117945663483906

there used to be a hashtag, #NotAllChristians—it got ridiculed and abandoned, for "Not All Christians" is never a standard that's applied to Islam or other religions, nor to the "ideologies" that right-wing Christians like @MattWalshBlog and @DouthatNYT purport to oppose.

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the attitude of such fascıst Christians is that all "Islam" (or all "gender ideology") is accountable for the actions of a few extremists. yet Christianity is far FAR more fruitful in creating violent extremists, and those extremists enjoy considerable police backing.

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and yet the general attitude of *liberal* Christians to fascıst Christian extremism, of the sort tolerated by @DouthatNYT and *encouraged* by @MattWalshBlog, is to mumble "#NotAllChristians" and say that people like Walsh and Douthat aren't "real Christians".

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it's not good enough. it's NEVER been good enough. the *exceptionalism* of Christianity—the way in which Christianity regards itself as exempt, granted a permanent dispensation from all the rules that Christian society demands others follow—is incompatible with society.

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liberal Christianity, dissenting Christianity, whatever you want to call it, is responsible for @MattWalshBlog and @RepMTG and @PastorMark and all the other Christian fascists. I have spoken out myself *because I am Christian*. I'm a baptised and confirmed Catholic.

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I consider this *my religious duty* to fight @MattWalshBlog and @DouthatNYT and all the other fascıst Christians who are just FINE with child abuse and child molestation as long as it's coming from their own side. I refuse to countenance their hypocrisy and self-deceit.

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I know I'm not the only Christian who feels this way—all the same, I feel as though FAR too many Christians simply have no stomach for this fight. your own religion is sick, dying perhaps! don't you want to find out what's *wrong*?

~Chara of Pnictogen