Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes
by fallingknife on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:43AM
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I think it used to be the former, and is now more like the latter. And I think that as Christianity, independent of the GOP, continues to be less of a political force, you will see a brand of Republican religion without reference to Christianity. I think the beginnings of this can be seen in the purging of Liz Cheney, who, until very recently, was a canonical Republican. Now it is basically heretical in the Republican party to go against Trump. Also Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate that I can remember who didn't make a show out of his Christian faith, and didn't seem to be hurt by it.
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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes
by DarylZero on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:40AM
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But he still kind of did just by choosing Mike Pence as VP.
Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:29PM
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And Trump is a perfect demonstration of a political party having "religious zeal" unanchored to a religion. He's close to a God figure to some people. Those people and Christians really need to be in separate political parties.