Hahah cuckold. Get in the fucking game. Start letting people die by the metaphorical sword they use on you, stop crying and arguing in defense for JK Rowling, Bill Maher or even fucking Chapo Trap House when they will NEVER do it for you.
Literally all this does is give woke leftists an excuse to become as woke as possible, you dumbasses and boomer right wingers with goldfish memory will be there to say “UMMM WAIT A SECOND I THINK THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY PRECISELY ACCURATE! I hate this communist terrorist that wants me dead, but he technically didn’t RAPE that chick, dude!”
Seriously, it makes me realize I should just become a massive woke asshole, what’s the worst that will happen? They’ll always have the retard boomer squad to defend them :)
Mercy is not the same as letting your guard down. This is why in the Christian framework, mercy is tied to willing, genuine, repentance.
In the Christian framework, atonement is dead and forgotten, replaced with forgiveness. It used to be a good framework, but it's become too perverted by modernity.
Atonement can only exist with forgiveness as far as I'm concerned.
Atonement without forgiveness is slavery.
Forgiveness without atonement is destructive.
We don't disagree here.
Tell me, do you think Christian morality could have ever been instilled in the population without theocratic or theocratic adjacent institutions, authoritarian in nature? Could Christian America have ever came about without first Papal, then Anglican, then Protestant dominance?
Not only yes, but it did in direct opposition to both.
This is one of the reasons the 1st amendment is so important, and why it was pushed in the first place. Remember that New England was founded by many veterans of the English Civil War and had fought against Catholicism, and then watched the Anglican Church betray them, and then watched Parliament betray them years later. It's no wonder we ended up being as rebellious as we were.
It seems very much that a lot of American Christians focus more on trying to replicate early Christendom, rather than the structured stuff that came before. Even Protestantism itself is a rebellion against the Catholic Church that it felt became more decadent and institutional, rather than focusing on individual piety.
America seems to have heavily focused on de-institutionalizing Christianity from the state, and individuating it among the people. The fact that the 1st amendment effectively prevents government action in the marketplace of religion is what caused the 2nd Great Awakening movement to explode in growth as American Folkway religions grew and expanded into the Ohio frontier.
The lack of religious institutionalization through the state allowed people to adopt it freely and let it be culturally institutionalized. However, as you push to institutionalize it through the state, you guarantee rebellion against it.
The moral authoritarianism of the United States from the mid 19th century onward (along with the final era of the industrial revolution and the propagation of Mass Society) guaranteed that the US was going to be ripe for Leftism... but so were most countries on earth. However, Americans Liberal foundation still heavily focuses on individualism (despite the latest efforts), and it's underlying cultural institutions still heavily reflect that. That's why Evangelicals focus on you "your personal relationship with God". That is a uniquely individualist, Christian, Anglo-Protestant perspective.
I'd say that America exists despite the forces of institutional Christianity. Or even to spite them.
I think many American Christians have always had an "away with this popish idolatry" streak.