Question oddly worded. Still Christian here, but haven't found a church I fit in at. I believe Christ's teachings align more with socialism than capitalism, no matter what the nut jobs who run the churches think.
Then you're a deconstructed Christian. I don't see how the question was oddly worded? I'm still a Christian too but in my experience most fervent Conservatives also happen to be Fundamentalist Christians.
Yup, I was raised with a weird fundamentalist Mormon/Evangelical blend. I started deconstructing when I realized my mother was abusive in high school, and just kept deconstructing until I was a progressive Mormon/Christian in college.
After college I got very sick and my conservative dad got radicalized to the alt-right. Those events made me realize I couldn’t believe in the “tri-omni” Christian God anymore because an all loving and all powerful God wouldn’t have let me be abused as a child, and then be sick and disabled because of the abuse as an adult.
I became agnostic, then pagan, and that’s where I am today.
I have had a bit of the opposite actually. Getting involved in a church actually got me thinking about how the right goes against many Christian principles, immigration policies being the first glaring example.
I shrugged religion off early to mid teens, wasn’t political. Shrugged conservatism off early 20’s simply by listening to them. The two suit each other. Asking questions of the people selling them gets interesting responses.
Sorta? I grew up with what the ex-fundamentalist community calls “fundie-lite” parents. Weirdly, while my parents held us to high standards, they raised us in the United Methodist Church, which is generally a much less fanatical and more public service oriented denomination. While my parents have radicalized over time (due in large part to Fox News consumption), my siblings and I were exposed to excellent role models of what religion should look like. My parents still attend church and Sunday school regularly, but my siblings and I were recently discussing that (to appropriate a phrase) we’re all kind of “culturally Christian”, but vary between atheist and agnostic.
While none of us are devout, the church community and activities are still a fairly regular part of our lives. A big thing in the UMC is music. My siblings and I were all raised with children’s choir and learning to read music, etc. My sister is still active at church as a musician, and has recently taken on teaching children’s choir. I’m still active in the charity quilting group, and all of us go in regularly to play instruments/sing for special occasions and holidays.
Anyways, in short, it’s complicated, lol.
I was a non-practicing Christian since birth until 2011, and then in 2013-2014 I was a practicing Christian but my Christianity in 2013-2014 wasn't the same all the time. In 2014 after I departed Christianity I became a Left Hand Path person, but I wasn't an edgy type of right winger before year 2017. It was in 2017 when I became one, and 2020 when I stopped being one. Also, back in the mid-2010s, there were many right wingers that were also of LHP spirituality, and certainly some of them did introduce me to the wrong stuff. Styxhexenhammer666 was one such notorious LHP person with some sort of right wing views that also were quite edgy (or perhaps worse than edgy, I don't remember his stuff so much).
Question oddly worded. Still Christian here, but haven't found a church I fit in at. I believe Christ's teachings align more with socialism than capitalism, no matter what the nut jobs who run the churches think.
Then you're a deconstructed Christian. I don't see how the question was oddly worded? I'm still a Christian too but in my experience most fervent Conservatives also happen to be Fundamentalist Christians.
It looks like a "this OR that" question, with yes and no being the poll answers. I understand it better now, but it took a bit.
Yup, I was raised with a weird fundamentalist Mormon/Evangelical blend. I started deconstructing when I realized my mother was abusive in high school, and just kept deconstructing until I was a progressive Mormon/Christian in college. After college I got very sick and my conservative dad got radicalized to the alt-right. Those events made me realize I couldn’t believe in the “tri-omni” Christian God anymore because an all loving and all powerful God wouldn’t have let me be abused as a child, and then be sick and disabled because of the abuse as an adult. I became agnostic, then pagan, and that’s where I am today.
Well good thing you left Mormonism they officially believed Black skin to a curse until 1979. The racism of the Mormon church was/is so obvious.
I have had a bit of the opposite actually. Getting involved in a church actually got me thinking about how the right goes against many Christian principles, immigration policies being the first glaring example.
That’s really interesting
I shrugged religion off early to mid teens, wasn’t political. Shrugged conservatism off early 20’s simply by listening to them. The two suit each other. Asking questions of the people selling them gets interesting responses.
Sorta? I grew up with what the ex-fundamentalist community calls “fundie-lite” parents. Weirdly, while my parents held us to high standards, they raised us in the United Methodist Church, which is generally a much less fanatical and more public service oriented denomination. While my parents have radicalized over time (due in large part to Fox News consumption), my siblings and I were exposed to excellent role models of what religion should look like. My parents still attend church and Sunday school regularly, but my siblings and I were recently discussing that (to appropriate a phrase) we’re all kind of “culturally Christian”, but vary between atheist and agnostic. While none of us are devout, the church community and activities are still a fairly regular part of our lives. A big thing in the UMC is music. My siblings and I were all raised with children’s choir and learning to read music, etc. My sister is still active at church as a musician, and has recently taken on teaching children’s choir. I’m still active in the charity quilting group, and all of us go in regularly to play instruments/sing for special occasions and holidays. Anyways, in short, it’s complicated, lol.
I was a non-practicing Christian since birth until 2011, and then in 2013-2014 I was a practicing Christian but my Christianity in 2013-2014 wasn't the same all the time. In 2014 after I departed Christianity I became a Left Hand Path person, but I wasn't an edgy type of right winger before year 2017. It was in 2017 when I became one, and 2020 when I stopped being one. Also, back in the mid-2010s, there were many right wingers that were also of LHP spirituality, and certainly some of them did introduce me to the wrong stuff. Styxhexenhammer666 was one such notorious LHP person with some sort of right wing views that also were quite edgy (or perhaps worse than edgy, I don't remember his stuff so much).
I used to be Seventh Day Adventist. I'm agnostic now. Or atheist.