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MAGA Christians Aren't Christians, At Least Not According To Jesus
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride,
The first Christians didn’t call themselves Christians.
It wasn’t some congratulatory self-identifier as it is today; a way of loudly trumpeting one’s own supposed goodness, quickly slapped on social media bios, bumper stickers, and t-shirts without forethought, personal cost, or empirical evidence. It wasn’t about a place you visited for an hour on Sunday before Cracker Barrel, either.
The term Christian was originally a designation of the community of people following Jesus, by…
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