Plague of the Anti-Christians

Christianity, and religion generally, has a long history of abuse of its believers and non-believers. But this conception of Anti-Christian is meant to represent the 20th- and 21st-century corruption of the peaceful, good news of Christianity that began infecting churches, politicians, and believers in the USA. Republican Barry Goldwater said of this movement:

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”

Some properties of Anti-Christians include:

• constantly talk about how Christian they are; excessive public demonstrations of praying and advertising how religious they are
• grievance collecting; always the victim; also claim victim status when they are not able to force their ideas onto other people ("we're victims of a war on Christianity if strangers don't say 'Merry Christmas' to us in grocery stores" or when they can't force school children who aren't Christian to pray or read the Ten Commandments)
• excessive lying
• frequent blasphemous speech claiming partisan operatives and nation-state activities as approved or detested by God
• worship/idolization of wealth and people who have accumulated a lot of wealth, regardless of easily-obtained evidence that the wealth was not achieved by Christian behaviors
• worship/idolization of guns, weapon superiority, and "righteous" violence
• worship/idolization of the state (nationalism)
• make qualititive decisions about life that is valuable and not
• insist on absurdities (e.g. Jesus was a white man, the Earth is 4000 years old, child marriage, women should be subservient)
• focus on cherry-picked "rules" from the Bible while ignoring the larger message of peace, acceptance, and non-violence. The refuse to consider literary or history context for those cherry-picked passages when used as a weapon against their targets, but are fully considerate of context when other nearby passages in the text implicate themselves in crime/sin
• claims to support Israel but only as an instrument to their end-times theories after which only a remnant of them will survive
• unforgiving of transgressions by people outside their group while demanding acceptance of their own members
• works contrary to justice for the widow and the orphan. hateful and violent toward the stranger
• are well known for their hate; rather than their love

Famous Anti-Christians

• James Dobson
• Jim Bakker
• Franklin Graham
• Mike Johnson
• Donald Trump
• Kenneth Copeland
• Paula White-Cain
• J.D. Vance
• Greg Abbott
• Ken Paxton
• Markwayne Mullin
• Karoline Leavitt