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Opinion | MAGA Has Devoured American Evangelicalism

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/maga-evangelicals-iowa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE0.Sa6L.HTTFqJ7dhkda

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the same way a butterfly devours the caterpillar in the chrysalis.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is beautiful.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Evangelicals came into existence to defend segregation. Maga is just the new branding, they have always held those beliefs.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image Image

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  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you find this interesting, I strongly commend to you a book called “Jesus and John Wayne” by Kristen Du Mez

    She explains and provide receipts on how the evangelical movement in the United States evolved, and was looking for a Trump before Trump showed up.

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That looks pretty interesting. I have a general idea of what’s happened since the 80s but I’m curious what she has to say about the decades prior.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They were always the same thing.

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can it poop it out and bury it?

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1933-45:

    But by and by the [Nazi] Party’s own spirit began by itself to fill up the emptiness of spirit in people’s lives. This was where the Church had failed. And people began to turn from the Church, which in spirit they had already left, to the Party. The Church blamed the Party for this, but in the beginning it was not the Party’s fault at all. The Church created this vacuum, and the Party, in the end, took advantage of it.

    …

    [They] wanted Germany purified. They wanted it purified of the politicians, of all the politicians. They wanted a representative leader in place of unrepresentative representatives. And Hitler, the pure man, the antipolitician, was the man, untainted by “politics,” which was only a cloak for corruption.

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  • butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s almost like stupid people can be led to anything if you just activate their fear and hatred.

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  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Corporate wants you to find differences between this picture and this picture

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  • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for posting a link with an unlock code. I usually ignore links to the New York Times because of its paywall

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re welcome. It’s utterly trivial to find gift links like this to 90% of recent paywalled news.

      You can also use archive sites to bypass all the soft paywalls. (archive.today, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org)

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, just makes it easier to figure out who to target in the civil war

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lot of us would rather they shaped up rather than forcing a civil war

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