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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How do angry, hateful, vicious people like MTG convince themselves they're Christian?

I don't think it's a pose - she appears to be entirely sincere about her claim to Christianity.

And I understand the basic mechanics of it - they pick and choose which parts of the Bible to highlight and which to ignore, and how to self-servingly interpret the ones they do pick.

But in a more fundamental sense, I still don't understand how they do it. Are they really entirely devoid of self-awareness or conscience? How is that even possible? Or do they have at least some rudimentary self-awareness and conscience, but they just ignore it? How is that even possible?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's just stone stupid and incapable of self awareness, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're perfect for each other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Young love arguments are so cute

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe stop assuming that “Christian” is synonymous with “good”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It is synonymous with "claims to follow a set of instructions that tell you to be empathetic," though (or rather a subset of that group).