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- Think for a moment about what it really means when you call a Christian who is being evil a “fake Christian.” What you are saying is that “real” Christians are morally superior, which is precisely what Christians who oppose pluralism—and who for their part cast the “fake Christian” accusation at liberal believers and proponents of liberation theology—believe about themselves. Accepting authoritarian Christians’ own framing paves the way for fundamentalist Christians to receive undue deference from major news sources, whose normalization of this extremism helped forge their path to power. This unquestioned deference toward Christians and to their leaders, this assumption that they must be basically good, is also what has allowed abusers to go unchecked for so long in both Catholic and Protestant contexts.