There are a few ethnonationalist or WN blogs where the same refrain is heard all the time; sometimes the accused are called ''Rapture Bunnies'' or other such mocking apellations, and again, it is enough for them to say that Christians are culpable, regardless of their lack of evidence that such is the truth.
I remember this by the Center for Immigration Studies, which gives some actual data on what members of various religious groups think about immigration, vs. what the leadership of the religious groups say. Just as with politics, it seems that there is a disconnect between the rank-and-file members and the 'leadership.' It's evident that many religious leaders are of the elitist mentality, just as our elected officials are.
According to this poll, it is 'born-again Protestants' who have the most ''right-wing'' views on immigration and immigration laws.
Born-Again Protestants: 76 percent support enforcement; 12 percent support conditional legalization.''
Born-agains are more likely than mainline Protestants (traditionally very liberal churches), Catholics, and Jews to support enforcement of immigration laws and not to support legalization of illegals. Born-agains are the most conservative among the groups surveyed.
But according to the internet's self-professed experts, ''born-agains'', who are probably considered ''Rapture Bunnies'' in most cases, are the most PC and liberal of all groups. And I am sure that any data to the contrary will be ignored or denied by these people.
The survey reported here says
Yet, among evangelicals, three out of every four (72%) describe themselves as mostly conservative and a mere 2% say they are mostly liberal. Just one out of four evangelicals (24%) says they are in the ideological middle ground.''
It has to be said, though, that many people who describe themselves as ''conservative'' today are raving liberals on issues like immigration, and are becoming more liberal on racial matters, in response to the leadership of many denominations becoming ultra-liberal and globalist.
Despite those unfortunate trends, I think it's still accurate to say that the more religiously conservative Christians tend also to hold old-fashioned, politically incorrect views rather than being diversity-philes as so often alleged.
I maintain that the people who constantly rail against Christians on AmRen or other similar blogs and forums are people who already have an antipathy to Christianity. These people, in my opinion, are seizing on a convenient pretext to further accuse and discredit Christians, the pretext being that Christians are dimwits and dupes who are aiding and abetting the globalist/anti-White agenda.
The remark is also often made that ''rapture bunnies'' or Evangelicals are people who are indifferent to what is happening in the world because they expect to be 'raptured' at any moment. Some ignorant critics claim that rapture-believers think that they should hasten the end times so as to force Jesus' return. This is simply not true, but it's another handy weapon to use to bash Christians.
If my own personal beliefs are relevant (an unfriendly commenter a few years ago accused me of being a ''rapture bunny'') I am not convinced of the notion of the 'rapture'. It is not a view that is held by all Christians, contrary to what critics and accusers of Christians say.
I truly wish that those who rant about 'Evangelicals' would tell us what, exactly, that term means in their minds. It is evident that they often do not know the meaning of the word; it is their curse word to be used against Christians whom they find bothersome. I also wish they would show some evidence that they know anything at all about the 'rapture' business, which they delight in condemning. Misunderstandings of such beliefs are rife, and most people who condemn those beliefs know next to nothing about them.
As for AmRen, I've concluded that they consciously allow and thus encourage anti-Christian comments. They seem to exercise tight control over comments, even more so since the revamping of the website and the new commenting system. So any anti-Christian comments are there because the AmRen folks want them to stand.
I have to wonder, frankly, if the free rein given to the critics of Christianity is meant to try to placate potential Jewish members. It seems that Christianity is like kryptonite to many Jews, even when the Christians in question are pro-Zionist and philo-Semitic. In the past, I wondered why that was so; why they didn't reciprocate the admiration. I just accept it as fact now.
Another paradox about many of the anti-Christians on various blogs: they often oppose Christianity because they say it is 'Semitic' or 'Jewish', never explaining why Jews would oppose a religion which is supposedly so Jewish. It seems that the same pople who oppose one of those religions opposes both. Odd, because the two religions are very different, not Siamese twins by any means.
But the Christian bashing will go on at AmRen because it suits somebody; it serves some purpose, though I am not sure what.
And the critics and bashers will go on doing their thing. It would be nice if sometimes, someone would speak up in defense of the faith of our fathers. Or perhaps any such comments just would not pass moderation on most such blogs.
