Comment on When did Christians get involved in politics in USA? I was watching young Turks clip on youtube. There was an exmuslim guy he said pat Robertson forced Christians into politics. So when was it?

Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ken_cleanairsystems@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On one hand, unfortunately we can’t completely blame that POS for it, because (as other people have pointed out) it’s been around for much longer. OTOH, I can find no other fault with your post.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Things run in cycles. If you go back far enough, of course you can find strong Christian influence in politics in the US, but that influence comes and goes over the years. It is one thing for a President or other politician to be Catholic or Protestant or whatever, but the influence in the 1970s on general day-to-day governing was not huge. (as an example, Biden is Catholic, but he doesn’t try shoving it down the entire nation’s throat)

    One thing that Reagan did was bring religion into the White House and marry it to the entire GOP in an unholy union of pure evil. Fuck everything about that piece of garbage.

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• danielton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It started long before him, unfortunately.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve already responded to this thinking below. Things run in cycles at times the US was far more religious than we are now. At other times, much less so.

    When Reagan got elected, the country was definitely not a particularly powerful force in politics. Carter didn’t try to push his religious beliefs on the nation. Neither did Nixon or LBJ. They themselves were reasonably religious, but it wasn’t a cornerstone of their political beliefs. Reagan changed all that and his marriage of the GOP and the Religious Right continues to this day.

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