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White evangelical support for Donald Trump wasn't about partisanship -- it was about animus toward minorities https://t.co/XABiPyVr4O

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White evangelical support for Donald Trump wasn't about partisanship -- it was about animus toward minorities 

No shit, Sherlock.  What was your first clue?

No one should have been surprised by evangelical Trump support, and that the American public has done such a poor job of grappling with the issue is a sad commentary on the fundamental weakness of American civil society.

Maybe when we finally grapple with racism in America, and economic inequality baked into the system by law, oh, and climate change, we can finally get around to pet problems like American fundamentalist Christianity.  Which, frankly, was a political force for maybe 30 years, and is fading fast from the political scene.

I think we'll survive that, as a nation and a culture.  The other three?  Somehow I find them far more serious.

That goes for Valerie Tarico, too.  Work out the demons of your childhood in private.  What you experienced as Christianity is not the Christianity of the world, or even many of us in America, or even all of us in the South.  Find a support group, read some works of real scholarship like, say, Bultmann or Brueggeman, and quit whining to the rest of us about what still bothers you.  You need therapy, not a publisher.