• jjjalljs
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    3 days ago

    This is true. The same problem applies to transportation, health care, food security, etc. Poverty is terrible. Unfortunately, the right wing also seems to hate any effective programs to deal with it. No school lunches, no basic income, no nationalized insurance, etc etc.

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      3 days ago

      Right, it’s especially rich because that the demographic that’s overwhelmingly “Christian” despite consistently voting against policies that align with “Christ’s” teachings.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        The Southern Baptist Convention schismed from the Triennial Convention (the National Baptist group) because the national Baptists weren’t pro-slavery enough.

        The SBC is based fundamentally around racism, it was founded on racism, one of the beliefs I was exposed to in the south was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham

        They taught themselves that their brand of Christianity was their only defense against brown people and their Northern masters who want to destroy the “Southern Way of Life”, and now it’s just a siege mentality with whichever conman comes around.