Why is the Republican party so content with denying healthcare as a human right, and trying everything they can to harm people who need any sort of assistance? Like… How do they do it? How much are we talking here when we speak about tax savings for them?
Pretend I am rich? Like how much money am I getting back by Republicans kicking men off healthcare or destroying insurance for those who need it most. It must be alot right?
Protestantism.
Protestantism is Christianity but Jesus is Replaced with Capitalism. If you’re rich, God has chosen you. If you’re poor you have definitely committed every sin.
To help the poor is therefore a betrayal of God.
That is very much not Protestantism. Protestantism is simply the branches of Christianity that descend from the Reformation in the 1500s, “Protesting” what they saw as corruption and even heresy in the Roman Catholic Church. Broadly speaking, Christianity falls into three major categories: the Roman Catholic Church (with the pope and whatnot), Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Protestant churches come in many different flavors.
Most (if not all) of the most progressive and Christ-like churches are Protestant.
What you’re talking about is Prosperity Gospel. Which is completely antithetical to Christian theology, but that doesn’t stop greedy megachurch preachers and televangelists from pushing it onto ignorant people who know nothing about their own faith.
Edit: Seeing the downvotes, allow me to clarify. I’m not saying all Protestant churches are progressive. As I stated in my follow-up, the least progressive churches are also Protestant. And the behaviors being decried are indeed carried out by Protestants. But I’m saying that Protestant is a very broad category that is not encapsulated by the description I was replying to. The accusation shouldn’t be leveled at Protestantism, but rather at Evangelicals or specifically those who hold to Prosperity Gospel.
Sorry, not convinced. Wait, not sorry either.
All the most terrible christians I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with were Protestants, whereas Catholics are just sorta there, honestly. (and I won’t comment on Orthodoxy because it’s too foreign. Like they might be terrible or amazing, I just never interacted with them, not a thing in my neck of the woods at all)
It is Evangelical Churches boosting fascist candidates in the US and my own country of Brazil.
If people want to convince me that Protestantism ISN’T authoritarian ultracapitalism in Church Clothes, they’ll have to show me something that stands stronger than the entirety of the past 10 years
Trump, Bolsonaro, all boosted by Protestants.
Actually protestants in italy ate the most progressive form of Christianity we have. The Valesian church for example accept same sex marriage, has had female priests since forever and has a very strong position on church-state separation and non proselytizing.
You just don’t know much about protestants and think they are all the same like Trump or Bolsonaro.
Like I said, Protestant churches come in many flavors. MANY flavors.
What you’re saying is like, “Every quadrilateral I’ve seen lately has four equal sides and four right angles, I think you’re wrong about them only needing four sides.”
Evangelicals are (generally) Protestants (although “Evangelical” isn’t really any sort of organized body but rather something people identify as), but not all Protestants identify as Evangelicals. Those who preach the Prosperity Gospel would profess to be Protestant or Evangelical, but not all Protestants or even all Evangelicals buy into Prosperity Gospel.
Again, the most progressive denominations of Christianity are Protestant. That said, so are the least progressive denominations. It’s a huge category.
I strongly disagree.
There are Protestants that are quite different. That is mostly protestants in the USA, which I doubt they are Christians at all.
I can guarantee you that all protestants here in Brazil are like that.
In fact when you consider that protestantism started as a defence of capitalism when the Catholic Church was condemning it – It’s hard to believe the faith isn’t that at its core.
What?
You got your history wrong mate, quite wrong.
Protestant where born as far as 13th century and had not much to do with capitalism.
Maybe you refer to Martin Luther and his attack on the mercimony on the Catholic church, that had nothing to do with capitalism but with spiritualism.
Protestantism started as a reaction to the Catholic church monetizing “Salvation” through indulgences. The Lutherans had some other gripes, but that was a big one. Evangelical protestantism is pretty evil though. It originated in America and has spread everywhere it can. Looking it up American branded Evangelical protestantism is the main kind in Brazil. It looks like less than five percent are identified as European originating branches.