Opinion | MAGA Has Devoured American Evangelicalism

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is beautiful.

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They were always the same thing.

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can it poop it out and bury it?

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• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  [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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• regdog@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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