You can tell by how they reject the Jesus of the Bible and instead craft a counterfeit version of Jesus, one who sneers and mocks the same things they do, one who is a bloodthirsty as them, one who condescends in victory as them, one who hates all the same things they hate. They've very clearly settled on their own ideal vision of the world, how things ought to be, who the good ones and bad ones are, who should have power and who shouldn't, etc and then created a Jesus in their heads who conveniently matches that to the T.
Whether OP is right or wrong, I can't say. But I know that the Online 'Christian' Right's vision of Jesus being some vengeful and spiteful king riding in to conquer and subjugate all the undesirables and get revenge on all the people they think are wrong and evil while they get to watch from the sidelines, or are even encouraged to join in, it's all unbiblical and I choose not to have anything to do with it.
Yes, this is a phenomenon with the Right as people retreat to their Christian roots in order to solve practical, political issues. Christianity is thus the means, not the end.
Anyone that truly takes up the banner of Christ must attempt to understand and uphold all of His teachings, all the way from Matthew 5 to the Revelation sword from the mouth. I will say that the boomercons are experiencing the start of a well-deserved rebuke for selectively ignoring the latter side.
You can tell by how they reject the Jesus of the Bible and instead craft a counterfeit version of Jesus, one who sneers and mocks the same things they do, one who is a bloodthirsty as them, one who condescends in victory as them, one who hates all the same things they hate. They've very clearly settled on their own ideal vision of the world, how things ought to be, who the good ones and bad ones are, who should have power and who shouldn't, etc and then created a Jesus in their heads who conveniently matches that to the T.
Whether OP is right or wrong, I can't say. But I know that the Online 'Christian' Right's vision of Jesus being some vengeful and spiteful king riding in to conquer and subjugate all the undesirables and get revenge on all the people they think are wrong and evil while they get to watch from the sidelines, or are even encouraged to join in, it's all unbiblical and I choose not to have anything to do with it.
Yes, this is a phenomenon with the Right as people retreat to their Christian roots in order to solve practical, political issues. Christianity is thus the means, not the end.
Anyone that truly takes up the banner of Christ must attempt to understand and uphold all of His teachings, all the way from Matthew 5 to the Revelation sword from the mouth.