For those who don’t find “far-right” to be an applicable descriptor with what is known currently, I acknowledge that the meme creator could have been more precise with their word choice. However, I feel the difference is academic:

We can replace “far right” with the easily verified “not leftist” without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

Edit - I modified it, though I still find it to be a distinction without a difference - alt version for those who prefer (whoops missed one first time)

  • nozone@sh.itjust.works
    68·
    14 days ago

    Wasn’t he a Mormon? Didn’t he already find Jesus Christ? It didn’t seem to make a difference at all…

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      40·
      14 days ago

      Mormons aren’t Christians, at least according to those Christians who hate Mormons. They might believe in Jesus Christ but they didn’t find him. This might seem like a distinction without a difference but only because it is.

      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
        17·
        14 days ago

        Ypu are mistaken as to how that argument goes.

        The idea is that Christianity is a separate faith from Judaism because they have an entirely different set of texts and a different view of the relationship with God and what is expected of the faithful.

        Islam is a separate faith of Christianity and Judaism as it too has additional texts and a different perspective on God than what Judaism and Christianity has (which again differ themselves).

        Thus LDS is a different faith because it has a wholly new set of texts, it has a radically different view of the relationship with God than every other Abrahamic faith, and we have a lot of evidence that suggests Joseph Smith was outright fabricating everything. That’s a critical difference and suggests it should be seen as something else following the same standards applied to all otherAbrahamic faiths.

        • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          I’m not mistaken as how that argument goes. I disagree with it.

          In a different reply, I said "There is no authority, no person or group of people, authorized to decide who is a Christian and who is not. " and I stand with that. I didn’t deny that you can come up with arbitary criteria to exclude certain groups, especially when you are allowed to use vague language like “different perspective on God”.

          we have a lot of evidence that suggests Joseph Smith was outright fabricating everything.

          Do you think Paul wrote all the letters by Paul? How is this a critical difference?

          standards applied to all otherAbrahamic faiths.

          applied by whom? Applied by you and which army?

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Scientology are all quite similar. They all have some modern founder (Smith / Russel / Hubbard) who has positioned themselves as a Abraham like figure within the religion. Someone who has been charged by god (or aliens) to write the scriptures.

        They are all cults of personality, and a lot of American evangelical churches display similar traits. Charismatic preachers who become celebrities within the movement getting fame and power in the process. There seems to be something in the American psyche that gravitates to this kind of movement.

        Christian or not - all of these are problems movements in my eyes.

        • bignate31@lemmy.world
          3·
          13 days ago

          Christian Science as well. It’s eerie how many overlaps they have with Mormons: founded by a single person (Mary Baker Eddystone), have a book they treat as scripture (Science and Health), believe they are the “one true way”, and tell people to “pray to know if the book [and the religion] is true”

          So eerie, in fact, that it was the final nail in the head (so to speak) that allowed me to leave Mormonism for good

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          Charismatic preachers who become celebrities within the movement getting fame and power in the process.

          And wealth.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      14 days ago

      He doesn’t know the right Jesus. There are too many Jesus’s and everyone thinks their Jesus is the right one.