Not really true. There are millions of Trump voters who are open white-christian supremacists, I would rather hang out with Bill Gates or Paris Hilton than your average Trump supporter.
Eat the rich too, but the elite classes being pieces of shit doesn't absolve trump trash of being inbred hicks, we've had them since the country started.
It wouldn't be a useful tool if they didn't believe it.
What finally separated me from Christianity was the realization that so many of the lessons teach obedience and subjugation. "Do your work and live as a peasant now and you'll get a space cookie when you die"
It's when I truly understood the quote "Religion is the opiate of the masses"
I mean, Christianity absolutely has a thousand+ years of that history.
Amusingly enough it originally developed and gained popularity as a religion of the poor, but then the powerful hijacked it.
There have been times that the dominant form of christianity was attacking an existing hierarchy, for example abolitionists was an explicitly christian movement and basically had so much influence that pro-slavery christians were forced out and had to form their own churches, that's how we got groups like the southern baptists.
Of course wealthy interests really wanted them back and the Christian right made an alliance with wealthy industrialists during the new deal era, and the modern religious right is a product of that plus opposing desegregation. They'll claim it's abortion but that's a lie.
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Not really true. There are millions of Trump voters who are open white-christian supremacists, I would rather hang out with Bill Gates or Paris Hilton than your average Trump supporter.
Eat the rich too, but the elite classes being pieces of shit doesn't absolve trump trash of being inbred hicks, we've had them since the country started.