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<\/p>\nClearing out saved links from the past few weeks, posted here mostly just as links with only a few quotes and comments, and ending with a provocative site linked to the Medium blog collective.<\/p>\n
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\u00bb NYT, 12 Nov 21: A Frenzy of Book Banning<\/a><\/p>\n (Cmt: And some — these are Republicans — want to *burn* them too.)<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 12 Nov 21: GOP Members flooded with death threats<\/a><\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 13 Nov 21: The evangelical war on “social justice”<\/a>, subtitled, “In demonizing the ‘social justice gospel,’ evangelical hypocrites are literally rejecting the teachings of Christ”<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon: 13 Nov 21: Fox News deceptively edits Biden speech<\/a><\/p>\n \u00bb Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin, 9 Nov 21: Opinion: America cannot give evangelicals what they want<\/a><\/p>\n So what, then, do these voters want? Many essentially see politics as a great battle between White, Christian America and the multiracial, religiously diverse reality of 21st century America. They want someone to help them win that existential fight. Government is there not to produce legislative fixes to real-world problems but to engage their enemies on behalf of White Christianity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00bb Slate, Ben Mathis-Lilley, 10 Nov 21: Wow, a Lot of 2022 Republican Candidates Have Been Accused of Assaulting or Threatening to Murder Someone<\/a><\/p>\n \u00bb Medium\/Thomas Smurthwaite, PhD, 28 Oct 21: The Perils of American Fundamentalism<\/a><\/p>\n It takes astonishing conceit to believe you \u2014 and the minority of people who think like you \u2014 know God\u2019s will better than all others. Radical Christians show key narcissistic traits, including overconfidence in their beliefs and lack of interest in the views of others. The humility and love shown by Jesus is nowhere to be found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00bb Patheos\/Friendly Atheist, 2 Nov 21: Survey: Most White Evangelicals Wish American Was a Christian-Only Bubble<\/a><\/p>\n (Cmt: I\u2019ve long thought that conservative Christians seem to define themselves as people unable, or unwilling, to get along with others unlike themselves.)<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 2 Nov 21: Members of Congress urged to boycott anti-LGBTQ National Prayer Breakfast<\/a>, subtitled, “Freedom From Religion Foundation asks Congress to drop ‘nonpartisan’ annual right-wing recruitment festival”<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 2 Nov 21: An “alarming finding,” but no surprise: Many Republicans now ready to support violence<\/a>, subtitled, “New PRRI poll finds direct links between Trump’s Big Lie, far-right media and support for potential violence”<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 2 Nov 21: What if the truth about Jan. 6 is revealed \u2014 and the American people just don’t care?”<\/a>, subtitled, “Republicans have thoroughly rewritten the history of Jan. 6 \u2014 are the media and public too exhausted to resist?”<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 2 Nov 21: There is nothing godly about outlawing abortion \u2014 and Texas’ law is particularly un-Christian<\/a>, subtitled, “As a Christian biblical scholar, I see how conservatives are distorting our sacred text for their political goals”<\/p>\n The reality is that abortion only became a rallying cry for conservative Christians \u2014 and particularly Evangelicals \u2014 when Republicans decided it was politically advantageous<\/a> to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00bb Washington Post, 31 Oct 21: Opinion: Rick Scott\u2019s phony problem-solving<\/a><\/p>\n (Cmt: This concerns the decades-long Republican arguments for not spending because deficit, except when it means cutting taxes because cutting taxes.)<\/p>\n \u00bb Salon, 31 Oct 21: How extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy<\/a>, subtitled, “The Texas abortion law is one step toward the true goal of Christian dominionism: Destroying democratic government”<\/p>\n