I thought this went beyond that:ken_sylvania wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:18 pm As far as I can tell, the only critical thing you said about Biden in this thread is that this pronouncement is a political mistake. You don't even suggest that there is anything else wrong with it - only that you think it will hurt him politically.
It's alarming to me, at any rate. And very much at odds with God's creation as male and female. I think Romans 1 speaks to this. I don't use words like "demonic" very often, I try to be specific about what I am disagreeing with instead.
I think the everyday demonization of the other side is something you see in almost every Trump speech, this is a style of discourse that I don't remember from before the Trump era. I think he has mainstreamed it. It's one of his trademarks.ken_sylvania wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:18 pmOK, but I don't how this answers the question of why you brought up Trump in relation to this. Like, nobody said anything about him in this thread before you decided to make sure we all knew he was a fraud and a criminal.Bootstrap wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:58 pm But to me, there's a pretty big difference between criticizing Biden and calling him "demonic" or "evil". The whole "us versus them" questioning of sanity and morality and all that is a bit much. It's quite literally demonizing.
On MN, that usually involves politics, not discussion of religious people or topics.
And I think it's not good when we let ourselves become like him.