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Liberal Currents
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“What most political analysts miss is how strong and specific the authoritarian appeal is for white evangelicals, and how critical it is to at least weaken it. The roots of this confluence go back decades, if not centuries, and are deeply entwined with white evangelical theology itself.”

liberalcurrents.comYou Can't Run From Christian NationalismWhite evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.

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thr🎃ne st👀waway
@grubbyone.bsky.social

why Talarico’s approach has legs: pull back the veil to force public confrontation re: their discord with Christ’s teachings; peel some of the less committed away from the death cult; but most impactfully limit their recruitment prospects to those who openly defy Christ for the sake of power.

ahumanmoment
@2warreng.bsky.social

Harold Bloom usefully went a layer deeper on the American Religion. It’s helpful to understand the priesthood of the individual in US evangelicalism as a drastic departure from all that proceeded it, e.g. 19th century Mormonism

The Fool❌👑
@thefool37.bsky.social

This is an excellent piece but some of the statistics are inconsistent. If white evangelicals are 1/3 of Trump's coalition and 25% of the electorate then that suggests Trump's coalition is 75% of the electorate but he won with less than 50%.

Canada needs nukes
@xaul.bsky.social

"... lower scores on a verbally-based cognitive test, even controlling for education level. This doesn't mean white evangelicals are less intelligent; it means they are conditioned to control their thought.". I think it just means lower IQ. That's what the test measures. Explanations can differ.

Wesley
@wtjoseph.bsky.social

I’ve seen in my lifetime how northern, more irenic evangelicalism has been co-opted by the southern, authoritarian, unthinking, bigoted type. It is a sad development and one with negative effects for the country at large.

Wesley
@wtjoseph.bsky.social

The root problem, though, is the doctrine of inerrancy - that the Bible speaks for God once and for all, and humans can understand and apply it without any appeal to humility, love, grace, or other Christian virtues.