What is Americanized Christianity

I came across an article from 2015 that challenged Christians as to the source of their version of Christianity. While the issues have changed somewhat in the six years since it was written, the thrust of the article remains valid today. 

The U.S. version of Christianity, with a few exceptions, is based on current fetishes of the Republican Party. The fetishes mostly involved moral dislikes of conservative people. 

Back in 2015, the moral world was predicted to collapse is gay marriage became approved. During that period of time denominations were splintering over the issue. The Methodists are still dividing up the spoils of what was once a huge denomination. There was too much religious buffoonery back in 2015. That the Methodist Church is splitting up over gay preachers and gay marriage tells us there it still too much buffoonery. 

Today, the buffoonery is about people who change their gender. People have done this since the beginning of time. All of a sudden, it's the end of the world, a moral travesty. We can predict with certainty this hand wringing over changing genders will pass and Christian buffoonery will jump to something else.

Some of the other ridiculous religious panting is about churches prohibited from gathering because of the pandemic. Today there was a article about some church that was fined $85,000 for continuing to meet in person. The pastor said it was worth the price to continue to hold church services. This is why a growing number in the U.S. think of Christianity as quite strange. 

Christianity was really big in justification of slavery and later segregation. This branch of American Christianity was successful for some 300 years. It has shifted from holding back black people to holding back gay people and women. American Christianity is good at demonizing and casting aside those who otherwise are law abiding productive citizens.

I've been reading about Christianity on the African continent. While the continent is vast and the numbers huge, thus holding much diversity, polls show African Christianity is different than than of the U. S. There is much more belief in invisible demons. Anti Abortion is not as central. I've read a little about Christianity in China. It piggy backs on ancient religions there. 

Christianity is principally about sin. What a sin is, however, can change from one country to the next.