In a scathing op-ed, LGBTQ Nation Heroes nominee Melissa Gira Grant urges us to ask ourselves how we didn’t see someone like Johnson coming…

  • El Barto
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    6 months ago

    I’ve said this before: in the country I was born and raised (90% Catholic, I must say), evangelicals were seen as nutjobs and the majority didn’t pay attention to what they said. Given that it’s a Spanish speaking country, they are called “evangélicos.”

    It recently dawned on me that American evangelicals are evangélicos. How the fuck would anyone listen to those fucks?!

    Evangélicos are not Christian in my view. Evangélicos have always been religious fanatics not to be listened to. They’re below the deranged homeless person spouting bullshit in the corner - except that I feel empathy for that homeless person.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      I’m in Germany and the word “evangelisch” means “Protestant,” not “evangelical,” which fucked me up for a while because I kept assuming my Christian friend would be insane at some point, but she’s just very reasonable. I finally realized that she’s just a very chill Lutheran and I was mistranslating

    • @squid_slime
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      26 months ago

      its our fault, we sent them on boats from Plymouth to America