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tblue37

(67,306 posts) Sun Oct 5, 2025, 01:53 AM Oct 5

Bill Kristol: "Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much Christian teaching"-- [View all]

"Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much Christian teaching. It has become another tribal association jockeying for power and pursuing grievances.

The problem is when religions devolve into identitarian movements, bad things happen."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
— Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) 2025-10-03T14:40:43.190Z

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Bill Kristol: "Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much Christian teaching"-- [View all] tblue37 Oct 5 OP

All of that sneering and tut-tutting from the right about "identity politics" was RockRaven Oct 5 #1

It's alsoi mainly white Christians JI7 Oct 5 #2

latinos, poles, sicilians, irish . we immigrants are catholic rampartd Oct 5 #4

Exactly Duncanpup Oct 5 #6

The white Americans feeling like discounted generic items left on the shelf are defensive, have identity envy. betsuni Oct 5 #3

It's a death cult. Jesus would tell them, "I never knew you." Blue Full Moon Oct 5 #5

Post removed Post removed Oct 5 #7

what do *you* think it "really" says? WhiskeyGrinder Oct 5 #8

I'd say this is some AI (or other flavor) of bullshit, cobbled together by tighty-righties . . .. hatrack Oct 5 #9

You've never met a drag queen in real life, haven't you? yardwork Oct 5 #12

MAGA are gonna say that Kristol is Jewish Polybius Oct 5 #10

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine Ping Tung Oct 5 #11

Not for the Episcopal Church obamanut2012 Oct 5 #13

White supremacist, KKK, even southern slave owners used the bible as a shield for their hate Buckeyeblue Oct 5 #14

Superficiality is the new normal gulliver Oct 5 #15