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I need you to understand something about how the dipshit MAGA christofascist brain works. See, I was raised in a christofascist household in southern Kansas. In their minds, everything, and I mean *everything* stems from a hierarchial structure that goes:
God
Man
Wife
Children
In which God has authority over man, man has authority over his wife, and his wife has authority over their children. Now I want you to take a good look at this and notice a few things about it.
1) Notice that it's not "woman". Its "wife". A woman only has value in this system if and when she is married, and married specifically to a man. This is why they're so upset with gayness. Gay men and lesbians, as well as unmarried adults, are a threat to the hierarchy.
2) Notice that the gender binary is strictly enforced through the hierarchy. This is why they're so upset with transness. If people are free to decide which gender they are, then they effectively get to decide what level of authority they get. Trans people are a threat to the hierarchy.
3) Notice that it's not "men", it's "man". There is no collective power in this hierarchy. Authority is given by God to individual men, to do with as they will. That is why they're so upset with collective systems like democracy, socialism, and communism. The concept of community power itself is a threat to the hierarchy.
4) Notice that men are not given direct authority over their children, but rather indirect authority through their wives. This is essential to the concept of gendered work, and allows for men to justify being an absentee father and placing the (unpaid) work of childcaring solely on the shoulders of women. This is why they are so upset with women who choose a career over a family, and it explains why they're so upset with the idea of women getting an abortion. Women who can choose are a direct threat to the hierarchy.
@Lana This all makes perfect sense.
@Lana And the best part is that god is a made up concept and men get to chose what it is that "god wants" and can use it to externalize whatever they don't want to be personaly responsible for (but want to have anyway).
"Wife" is also a made up concept. As is "authority".
@Black_Flag @StreetDogg wait till you hear about literally every concept
@Lana Paul didn't write Ephesians, btw, which means that the hierarchical mindset is based on b.s.
@Lana
And I am of the persuasion that the top tier must be removed for the sake of humanity...
Just like the Billionaires and CEOs.
I live in a community of 6000
There are about 20 Churches here ...and they don't pay taxes...
Meanwhile they promote The Felon and anti pro choice.
Time to put a stop to the Cult formations.
Would that I could boost this more than once.
@Lana TIL. Thank you.
@Lana That’s a lot fewer words than I’d have needed. Brava!
Tightly tied into this hierarchy is the concept of “God-given rights” which I use as a red flag warning that the person I’m talking to is thinking this way.
“Where does God give you rights?” I’ll ask them, “in the Bible?”
… I’ve read the Book from cover to cover and nowhere does God give out rights, quite the opposite in fact.
@DavidM_yeg exactly. Constitutionally guaranteed. Not God given.
"We are a government of laws, not of men."
- Who writes the laws? Mostly, white men.
- Who signs the laws into existence? Mostly, white men.
- Who interprets the laws? Mostly, white men.
Bill Cole @Lana @DavidM_yeg Well, Tommy J. said that we are “endowed by our creator” with rights, but that was in the DoI not the Constitution and he was not a Christian.
“God-given rights” is a perversion of Christianity no matter where it is found or who says it; it’s an expression of entitlement that is incompatible with the concept of grace.
and how this slots into Republican thinking and then policy.
From: Don't Think of an Elephant, the book
@Lana I lived in a world filled with this too. My only quibble is that I don't think they see anything as really threatening it. Most of the christofascists I have known (and their sympathizers) see LGBTQ+ people, etc, as either "wrong" people who need to be pushed until they live "correctly" or as mentally ill people who must be "cured" even if it means taking their freedom from them to do it. We do get collectively rhetorically treated as threats when we organize, though.
@Lana
Well, many think that way, but that hierarchy wasn't meant in creation, it is consequence of the original sin. By the resurrection of Christ, sin is overthrown. A christian couple should acknowledge that.
"Conservatives" (and so on) put their ideology over the scripture.
@Fragarach