"Christians ought not to support a MAGA movement that claims the name of Jesus, but whose core sacrament is the systemic ritual abuse of the Other."

I ALMOST DIDN'T LISTEN to this one but I'm laid up with resurgent sciatica and I'm in too much pain to read a book.    The guy in the video, an ex-evangelical mininster-ex-Republican has a theory about how the fantasmagoric, obsessive, eternal damnation - Revelations literalist soteriology of that anti-Christianity is related to what makes them so damned cruel.

I think universalism is a far healthier movement that seems to be gaining some traction in popular Christianity - I think the better scholars among universalists make a rather convincing case for their belief - one which some are afraid would lead to amorality though I don't think you can make the case that a belief in the most grotesque idea of eternal damnation leads to better morals.   The entire history of Western culture right up to today would have probably been a lot less evil if eternal conscious torture was not pushed by the churches.   I wish they'd never put Revelation into the canon of Scripture,  it's been little more than trouble for the few beautiful images held within it.   Its danger has actually grown since the early modern period when Biblical literalism came up in a big way with Protestant "sola Scriptura" doctrine.   Though as "trad-catholics" prove, they're just as bad as the worst of them.