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Re:A lonely man in his 30s found community in an unlikely pl... by graemep on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:03PM (#41572708)
Traditional denominations are probably less prone to party politics than evangelicals.

In decades of going to Catholic and Anglican churches (not in the US, but in multiple varied places) I have never heard a candidate endorsed from the pulpit. The only political thing I recall was being told we should stand up for people of other religions who were at risk of persecution - apart from unarguable and nonspecific things about the poor

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Re:A lonely man in his 30s found community in an unlikely pl... by eru on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @08:02PM (#41574202)
It might be more of a contemporary American thing than an 'evangelical' thing?
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Re:A lonely man in his 30s found community in an unlikely pl... by graemep on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:25AM (#41578862)
Possibly. The US also produced groups like "rad trad" Catholics.
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Re:A lonely man in his 30s found community in an unlikely pl... by kylehotchkiss on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:03PM (#41572715)
That's really beautiful :')
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