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Those percentages are meaningless. If I walk into a restaurant and see a guy at a table with 9 Nazis, I see a table with 10 Nazis.
Christianity has 2 groups left; the people who are fascist motherfuckers and the people that condone fascist motherfuckers because they get what they want out of it. That's 99% of the South. That other 1% are people who need to leave.
I don't have any inclination whatsoever to engage with the Christians. None. They want to start shit, I'll be glad to finish it with a fucking smile on my face, but I'm not into fighting the American Al-Qaeda alone and I damn sure don't have any reason to live amongst them in the meantime because you think I have a duty to do so.
Again, when did I ask you to fight Y'all Qaeda alone? In fact I literally said you're free to leave and it isn't your job to stay in the South to fight them in the first place! You keep building up strawmen to attack and I don't know why.
As to the legitimate point that "If I walk into a restaurant and see a guy at a table with 9 Nazis, I see a table with 10 Nazis." I think it's worth pointing out they aren't at the same table. They don't go to the same churches, they aren't in the same social groups, they're literally different.
I'm comfortable saying all the Evangelicals are enemies but not literally all Christians when some denominations literally have queer pastors and do same sex weddings and the like. There's clearly different factions and we need to drive deeper wedges between them instead of lumping them together.
Don't go around making more enemies - we have enough of them.