People can (and will) claim what they wish re: Christianity. They can arrogantly boast about how aligned with Jesus they are even when their fruits would suggest otherwise. I think that, instead of listening to claims, Christians could do better when we look for signs of belief in practice. Does Project 2025 seem charitable? Does it uphold the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves, as Christ loves us? Does it rely on the status of one's heart or the love of money? Is it self sacrificial or self serving?Gunnar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:42 pm
And authors of Project 2025 openly and unashamedly advocate increasing tax rates on the middle class and the poor in order to enable trillions of dollars of tax cuts for billionaires! In fact, they advocate any policies that cut funding and assistance for everyone other than the ultra-wealthy! And they claim to be devout Christians while doing it! Can they really not see how utterly antithetical this is to the teachings of Jesus Christ, whom they claim to worship? Are rank and file working Americans really so stupid and gullible as to not see how they are being viciously being taken unfair advantage by these incredibly avaricious and purely self-serving monsters?
Does it elevate God or man?
Well that's a short list of what I would look for myself. Christians are prone to compartmentalization just like everyone else. Boy didn't I hear that enough in our old days, right? But it's true. We can cherry pick out a cause we support and ignore the devastation that surrounds it as fast as we can cherry pick scripture and ignore the context that surrounds it, because, you know, we're on the right side and we're gonna show you--got it right here in my Bible!
I know you are pointing out the irony, hypocrisy, and harmful acts of the P2025 movement but I did just want to make a point or two from my own perspective.
But it's not just their claim to Christianity and casting some kind of spell over believers that's at work. Non-believing P2025 supporters must have some skin in the game as well. What is it? Their personally held biases and bigotry? The powerless attaching themselves to power? The marginalized who need to feel accepted by a group and willing to pay any price for it?
I don't know. But wouldn't you agree that I am a better thinker and poster when I put my mind to it now than I was in the beginning?
