Topix Underground

"..A month ago on a flight, I sat next to someone in a Turning Point USA shirt who proudly told me it was Charlie Kirk’s birthday. Within minutes she was telling me she was a Christian, though she hadn’t read the Bible since she was “a little girl,” and didn’t know what a heretic is. After a few glasses of wine, the conversation went from small talk to her calling me names and saying she wanted to choke me.

Moments like that stay with you. It’s a reminder of how “Christian” branding has become merch and identity for a lot of people — not faith, not values, and definitely not anything Jesus taught. It’s culture-war cosplay wrapped in a cross logo.."