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This comment seems grossly overgeneralized and patently offensive about a huge group of people.

What does Joe Rogan have to do at all with evangelical Christians?




Very fair point, it wasn't my intent to disparage broadly.

>heard from the more cellophane elements of that crew

I should have made this distinction more clear. There are evangelical Christians whom I love dearly and hold in the highest regard. I don't want to call anyone a 'fake' Christian but there are definitely those that just seem to be focused purely on what others should and should not be doing. That's the kind I'm talking about here.


Thank you for the excellent clarification!


Welcome to HN, where some people find a way to fit their agenda into every discussion now, it seems.


It was just an observation, this feels like a new religion.


It is a new religion. The religion of Newchurch: https://www.devever.net/~hl/newchurch


I think you misread. The feeling described is about peoples reaction to Joe Rogan (like his tacit support for anti-vaccine ideology) and how evangelicals have the same reaction to things they don't like (like rights for women).

As far as I can tell evangelicals and many other Christian denominations are some of the biggest cancellers to ever exist. The left cancels, too, of course. And only now that the left's actions are becoming broadly effective folks are finally talking about how cancellations affect society.


OP(?) here, gunapologist99 makes a good point in that I painted with too broad a brush stroke.

Most of the evangelicals I know are actually amazing people and are not like this at all. They are generous, kind, forgiving...but they are also humble and quiet and don't make a bunch of noise or stir up trouble. Unless you live with them, nobody really hears about this kind of Christian.

Its just that there is a certain vein of folk that really focus on what everyone else should and should not be doing. Kenneth Copeland style. That's who I was referencing, but did a sloppy job of distinguishing them.

Anyway.




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