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[-] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

The evangelicals are fucking nutjobs that blindly believe a <200 year old reinterpretation by a guy who was essentially a grifter. There's been a massive evangelical push recently where they're proselytizing their faith.

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Who is this 200 year old grifter? I am unfamiliar. I do remember a douchebag that championed the end of o the world and gave a date, and it passed, and he made another date, which passed, but the faithful never abandoned his bullshit.

I think that was in the 19th century though. I know in the 1830's, then in the 1850's or so, there was an explosion of these guys, the so called great awakenings.

[-] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

US Evangelicalism is a <200 year old interpretation of the bible (the great reawakening). Then in the early 1900s is when others popularized and commercialized evangelicalism with the second great awakening (billy graham, carl Henry - grifters in their own right).

Then there's the douche grifter that I'm talking about, Schofield.

His notes and interpretations on the bible are basically what inform evangelical teachings and disseminations today - essentially end of the world interpretation, support of Israel, full fledged conservatism, death cult shit. Not to mention he was a confederate cunt.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah before that Christianity was not really all about the end of the world. They were more of a progressive element to keep the state in check.

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