#fun fact our last pm - scomo - is a pentecostal
something something the way my evangelical coworker would talk about how the sinfulness and degradation of others was an opportunity for people like him to gain closeness to god, that the existence of a suffering sinner provides the means for a good christian to secure approval from god and gain entry to the beautiful afterlife. sinners constituted a domesticatable and farmable resource for the benefit of christians, as did the children of sinners, who ought to be removed from the homes of non-christians and given to christians to raise for them. also how he was obsessed with talking about how you needed to restrict the sinner’s awareness of their choices to a simple split between choosing to do something difficultandhumiliating, or something easyandgood. The easyandgood thing to do was to form a relationship with a church that would sustain you in return for your service and compliance with christian doctrine. The difficultandhumiliating thing to do would be to ask any non-christian entity or organization for help. He loved the humiliating bureaucracy of collecting disability payments or unemployment or alimony. It served them right.
