The Christian Cartels & Christian Washing
Christian Pollution: Polemics & Absurdities Part 17. From the Chapter Trumping for Jesus
Christian Complicity
Christians and non-Christians often ask, “Why do you hold all Christians in contempt when only right-wing evangelicals cause the current GOP aims to enforce racism, inequality, and other religious dogma?” Just beyond the propaganda, you readily find the answer. You can belong to the most liberal Christian sect in America, support equality for all groups, and believe in the separation of Church and state but still be complicit in Christianity’s political motives the same way an innocent person can work for a drug cartel. Cartels employ many people who are not evil or actively involved in the drug trade, many not knowing they work for a Cartel.
The FBI defines cartels as “large, highly sophisticated organizations composed of multiple [drug trafficking organizations] DTOs and cells with specific assignments such as drug transportation, security/enforcement, or money laundering.”1 Similarly, large Christian denominations form cartels with many organizations that work just like the “DTOs that are either a part of or in an alliance with the cartel.”2
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