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My answer is that christians weren’t in control of the government, otherwise it wouldn’t have happened.
However, the immediate counter-argument will point out that power corrupts, even the Church was at some time in its 20 centuries-long history corrupted by the powerful/wealthy, who couldn’t care less about meekness, poverty, …
Now they don’t even have a territory left, nor schools or any kind of power. Christian families aren’t even allowed to teach their children outside government schools in France. State workers aren’t allowed to wear visible religious signs. Etc…

No need to develop, it’s just the same usual opposition between a “liberation theology” and a “prosperity gospel”, between a focus on the obviousness/message/urgency/future and a focus on the faith/identity/tradition/past(, edit : that part was one of the worst here, perhaps that it’s partially an instance of “why not both ?”, especially when opposing past&future. I suppose that this is what i had in mind when opposing some litteralists, who care more about the letter of the law than its spirit https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23&version=NIV. Then, there’s also the topic of how to apply christian teachings at a state level, when millions of people count on you, but even if i knew that, it still feels like western leaders aren’t christians, not only in our means, but in our goals as well. Again, what’s our stated endgoal b.t.w., what are we publicly walking towards, what kind of utopia ?).
The far-right clearly does not care about helping those outside our tribe/group, such as ethnic/religious minorities, the poor, foreigners, homeless, marginalized/vulnerable, … If we had been polytheists for the last thousands of years, then they wouldn’t be the kind of people to convert to christianism. They’d laugh at the past importance of a “gentle man”, only idealists&losers aren’t machiavelians they say, what’s one more lie if Hell doesn’t exist.
They’re in my group though, like non-humans, i still believe as i did back then that it’s a matter of finding the right words, of listening to their answers, …
One day they will be forced to confront better alternatives to the present, the kind in which the whole benefits instead of them, and i will see them unable to spin the arguments in their favor. I live for that day, and i will help in making it happen, one day.

Anyway, nothing new, just one more useless post telling things that everyone agrees with, and without receiving a counter-argument since i’m posting in an echo chamber. It’s pointless but whatever