• Queen HawlSera
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    664 months ago

    It’s often been pointed out that Right Wing Media Literacy is poor.

    We see this often when they root for villains or characters intentionally unsympathetic, like Bojack’s Dad, Homelander… heck Trump’s 2020 Re-Election team compared him to Thanos, saying he was “inevitable” and making gifs of him as Thanos snapping the DNC away.

    So this isn’t anything new in theory, but it’s amazing that this “They’re rooting for the bad guys because they don’t know how media works” problem extends to the FUCKING BIBLE!

    The Heroes of the Bible are intentionally meek a lot of the time, the point is that even when you aren’t powerful yourself, your dedication to your Faith and standing up for what’s right should be enough to make up for your shortcomings, for the Lord will lift your burden.

    It’s why “Proud Christian” doesn’t make any sense, it’s a very Pro-Humility faith!

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      74 months ago

      I’ve been saying it for a while, but a lot of the US so called Christian groups actually aren’t. I’m not really sure what they should be called. Pseudo Christian maybe?

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          24 months ago

          I’d argue that the American Civil religion is dedicated to the dual gods of Columbia and Mammon. Those are the only two things they consider truly sacred

    • @jaxxed@lemmy.ml
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      54 months ago

      This means that Canada defends the israelites, and therefore has God on their side.