This isn’t just about the Westboro church. And yes, albeit less explicitly homophobic or such, there are a LOT of churches and movements in that style. Can find lots of street corners with someone preaching by guilt, telling you this is your last chance not to burn in hell, and indeed not at all following in Jesus’ footsteps.
American Christianity is gross. Megachurches are gross. It’s all capitalistic, a massive industry, and consistently knee deep in homophobia, misoginy and more. Everyone uses God as a way of justifying whatever shit they’re into. “Guns are my god given right! God is on my side!”. It is all the absolute opposite of what Christianity supposedly stands for. And just because some cute little hometown church in the south only has sweet old ladies and is super tight knit etc doesn’t mean this doesn’t apply at scale.
American Christianity is gross. Megachurches are gross. It’s all capitalistic, a massive industry, and consistently knee deep in homophobia, misoginy and more. Everyone uses God as a way of justifying whatever shit they’re into. “Guns are my god given right! God is on my side!”. It is all the absolute opposite of what Christianity supposedly stands for. And just because some cute little hometown church in the south only has sweet old ladies and is super tight knit etc doesn’t mean this doesn’t apply at scale.