🧩 BND Motif Index · M887
No true Scotsman
A group is kept pure by redefining who belongs: whoever does the embarrassing thing, or falls short of the creed, was never a real one (Antony Flew's No true Scotsman).
- 2claims filed under it
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Gatekeepers 🧩 RINO 🧩 Not really left
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “Trump worshipers and Christian Nationalists are not true Christians because they do not follow the teachings of Jesus.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-21 “White Evangelicals are not actually Christians because they follow a version of faith based on vengeance and white nationalism rather than Jesus.” 🧶 people online
M887 · first seen 2026-10-12 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works