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So I promised we'd start talking books, right?
First up is Rick Wilson's ETTD.
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I was raised evangelical. I left when the GOP and the church got hitched for political power to elect Reagan. Couldn't see how a Christian could pick Reagan over Carter....
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07:57 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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Carter — the epitome of a what a follower of Christ should be like.
Both the Ds and GOP were looking to the future when the US would become a pluralistic society. Ds decided that meant they needed to be a pluralistic party. (Duh.)
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07:58 PM - Feb 02, 2023 (Edited)
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The GOP wanted to keep a white-controlled system in place; they needed the vote count white evangels could offer. They thought they'd set the policy; evangels would vote as they told them to. Evangels had their own agenda — a theocracy really.
It was obvious in 1980 how this was going to turn out./
08:01 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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I wish more people came to that realization as early as you did.
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08:03 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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I was a young reporter, covering the 1980 election—and teaching Sunday School in a Nazarene church.
So I had a ring-side seat, I'm afraid.
Hardest thing I ever did was to walk away from the church. Lost friends.
I watched those friends go through it in 2016. Didn't have much sympathy, I'm afrai
08:09 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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My closest friend in junior high was the daughter of a Nazarene preacher. After high school she left and became a model. Lost track of her then.
08:23 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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