Does the religious right matter any more?

[pecksniff]

I never see any RW on this board arguing from Scripture . . . though I admit the nature of Literotica might tend to filter out such. How much does it still matter in larger American society, as a political force?

 

[phrodeau]

Still a driving force in the rural South.

 

[KeithD]

Still a driving force in the rural South.

This, I think. As tenacious (and misguided) as always.

 

[pecksniff]

This video says evangelicals are more likely than others to believe in conspiracy theories such as QAnon. The statistics are disturbing.

 

[nowisthetime]

Intelligent people now see them as phonies(they supported a debaucherous traitor), but they are still a driving force with backwoods ignorant rural dwellers.

 

[rae121452]

to some of us, they never mattered.

 

[pecksniff]

to some of us, they never mattered.

Their votes did. Before the 1970s, most deeply religious Christian Americans simply avoided politics as an occasion of sin. In that period, they not only discovered their political power, but, for the first time in American history, formed an alliance of conservative Protestants and Catholics. They swung the 1980 election to Reagan and have had considerable influence since . . . but, it now seems to be fading. The Millennials have a higher percentage, about 25%, of agnostics and atheists than any elder generation, and the Zoomers are no more religious.

 

[pecksniff]

Intelligent people now see them as phonies(they supported a debaucherous traitor), but they are still a driving force with backwoods ignorant rural dwellers.

I have, while driving through the South, come across some truly astonishing Christian bookstores. I mean, there are people who take all this shit seriously?! Even the existence of enough of them to keep a local business like that going is a disturbing thing.

 

[pecksniff]

I note that nobody yet posting in this thread cares to defend the truth or value of Christianity, let alone its political relevance.

 

[YDB95]

I note that nobody yet posting in this thread cares to defend the truth or value of Christianity, let alone its political relevance.

Eh, true Christianity - as in actually following what Christ stood for - is almost entirely different from what the religious right espouses.

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2018/12/treason-for-the-season.png

 

[jaF0]

Ignoring their threat is why they keep getting elected.

 

[colddiesel]

Fundamentalism in all faiths will continue to be politically important. Evangelical Protestantism in USA, "Old" style Cathoicism in Southern Europe and Latin America, BJP Hinduism in India, Budhism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, and Islam in its three major forms all exert influence beyond their numbers and almost all are negative.

 

[Dribble]

If certain institutions want to act politically instead of religiously...tax them. If individuals want to donate money to those same institutions...that money should likewise not be tax-deductible. They do not worship God...but money and power. The path way to Godliness is the removal of the root of evil from their lives.

 

[Earthlyone]

In answer to the thread starter, Islam matters very much to Muslims yes indeed.

 

[Dribble]

I never see any RW on this board arguing from Scripture . . . though I admit the nature of Literotica might tend to filter out such. How much does it still matter in larger American society, as a political force?

In answer to the thread starter, Islam matters very much to Muslims yes indeed.

The first quote is the original question.

The second quote is a Fascist traitor's lame attempt to deflect. What's wrong? Why not answer the question? No talking points given by your Fascist traitor leadership and media sources?

 

[WillJ8787]

I never see any RW on this board arguing from Scripture . . . though I admit the nature of Literotica might tend to filter out such. How much does it still matter in larger American society, as a political force?

I think they matter to swingers and pedophiles more than anyone else since they belong to these groups in significant numbers.

 

[Earthlyone]

The first quote is the original question.

The second quote is a Fascist traitor's lame attempt to deflect. What's wrong? Why not answer the question? No talking points given by your Fascist traitor leadership and media sources?

↑ another CUNT with his head in the sand.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

↑ another CUNT with his head in the sand.

Best you can do is grade school insult????

Well if you can't answer the question, RWCJ logic dictates you move to deflection and insults.

 

[MaleProtagonist]

It's still a driving force in Republican politics and they all pretty much tied themselves to the most unchristian person to ever walk the earth so their brand along with the GOP brand are both dumpster fires of toxic sludge in need of extra-planetary disposal...Bezos or Branson should have dropped off the waste.

 

[Rightguide]

I never see any RW on this board arguing from Scripture . . . though I admit the nature of Literotica might tend to filter out such. How much does it still matter in larger American society, as a political force?

Most Christians aren't ministers and keep their religion to themselves, unlike you and your religion of Marxism.

 

[pecksniff]

Most Christians aren't ministers and keep their religion to themselves, unlike you and your religion of Marxism.

Would that were true. See post #7.

 

[Dribble]

Most Christians aren't ministers and keep their religion to themselves, unlike you and your religion of Marxism.

Another Fascist traitor not answering the question. I wonder...when did being a Christian become associated with the Religious Right?

 

[pecksniff]

Another Fascist traitor not answering the question. I wonder...when did being a Christian become associated with the Religious Right?

In the 1970s, when the Moral Majority was organized and there was a backlash against the new gay rights movement. That was also when Protestants started to take up the anti-abortion cause, which was a strictly Catholic thing before.

 

[pecksniff]

I wonder if the American religious right has simply been absorbed -- by what Anthea Butler calls White Evangelical Racism.

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.

Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation's founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate. During the buildup to the Civil War, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated blacks. In the twentieth century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. Most recently, evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation. White evangelicals today, cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership. Evangelicalism's racial history festers, splits America, and needs a reckoning now.