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In article <10v3bvg$1sgfb$
2@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2026 00:52:26 -0400, Smithwicks wrote:
In article <10v00qu$sqjl$8@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2026 11:06:59 -0400, Marcia Bullis wrote:
"Islam will someday dominate the earth and all you infidels will be
annihilated", so told me some mulim ...
Meanwhile the Christians are determined to bring about the End Times
and annihilate everybody, themselves included ...
Don't mistake American Evangelicals for Christianity.
Every proponent of every doctrinal religion, when abuses of their
doctrine are pointed out, resorts to this same excuse, donrCOt they? rCLTheyrCOre not *real* -2insert name of religion here-+rCY.
Christianity has existed for around 1,960 years (give or take).
It has experienced a multiple divergences of thought over those near-two millennia, as any religion is likely to.
What is significant is that a far more recent divergence, which is
immediately traceable to the social-political-religious landscape of the
19th and 20th century United States, is at noticeable odds with the
remainder of those other Christian groups.
What's more - the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and
historic Protestant churches are not "determined to bring about the End
Times and annihilate everybody". That entire stream of theology,
Premillennial Dispensationalism, is the pure product of American Evangelicalism. It stands at odds with the eschatological (study of last things) schools of thought which existed within Christianity for 1,800
of its 1,960 years (and which continue to exist within the majority of Christianity throughout the world).
So, yes, I think it is absolutely noteworthy and worth distinguishing.
The Christianity of "Left Behind" and the MAGA movement would be unrecognizable to anyone outside of the United States or to anyone who
lived before 1900.
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