Ah yes, friends, we are now at the "if it's in the Bible it can't be subversive" stage of discourse. Lord in Heaven give me strength not to die laughing.
Coming from a country where Christianity was a subversive force since Koreans (not Western missionaries) brought it over from China and formed relatively egalitarian communities that were scandalous by the standards of the time, where Christian churches were central to the struggle for democracy in the twentieth century, and are currently on both sides of the struggle against authoritarianism/fascism... the "analysis" that Christianity/theism is inherently oppressive and right-wing just strikes me as more of white people universalizing their society's specific problems, as though the rest of the world with its very different histories and contexts did not exist.
My favorite example of this is that the Taiping Revolution, the very nearly successful attempt establish a Christian theocracy in China in the 1800s, is memorialized as one of the "eight major revolutionary episodes" on the Monument to People's Heroes in Tienanmen Square.
"Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who from 1840 laid down their lives in the many struggles against domestic and foreign enemies and for national independence and the freedom and well-being of the people!"
