The American right's future involves waging a 'religious battle' against the left

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NEW: I went to NatCon in Miami, where Ron DeSantis was introduced as "the future president of the United States" and right-wing thought leaders, academics and politicians argued the left/right divide is really a brewing religious war

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The American right’s future involves waging a 'religious battle' against the left, leaders say at a...
“Insofar as conservatism as a movement has a future, it is a future that is going to be increasingly tied to explicit theological claims,” one speaker said in closing the National Conservatism...
12:06 PM · Sep 23, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/american-rights-future-involves-waging-religious-battle-left-leaders-s-rcna48961

MIAMI — In a luxury Miami resort earlier this month, leading conservative politicians, influencers and academics gathered to formulate a grand path forward for the American right.

Repeatedly, speakers here framed the ongoing fight against the American left in biblical terms — a “religious battle” in which Republicans must be unafraid to use state power to thwart progressive goals not just in government, but the private sphere, too. Those at the gathering often argued both the culture wars and a changing economy are a battle of Christian ideals vs. a new age secularism.

Again and again throughout the three-day National Conservatism Conference, or NatCon, these right-wing thinkers argued for putting an end to the era of small-government conservatism while promoting religion at the center of public life.

Closing the conference, Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, argued the divide in the country was one between Christian theology and a “woke religion that is raising itself up as the official state ideology,” adding that “insofar as conservatism as a movement has a future, it is a future that is going to be increasingly tied to explicit theological claims.”

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[onecaliberal]

1. The very thing America was founded against.

Did the entire world forget 2nd grade history?

[RKP5637]

8. If the maggots made it that far!!! n/t

[Solly Mack]

2. Theocracy is the word they are avoiding.

[JHB]

3. NBC's title is missing quote marks: ... against "the left"

For the NatCon nutjobs, "the left" is everybody who isn't with them. Anyone who is insufficient in conservative correctness and performance piety is "the left".

In their view, centrists like Bill & Hillary Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, etc. are not particularly different from Bernie, AOC, and the Squad. And their view of what all of the above want (and all of us here) is full-on Jack D. Ripper paranoid batshit fantasy.

[TheRealNorth]

4. Exactly

[vercetti2021]

5. Take your religion

And shove up your assholes. I believe in God, but I don't believe in your false religious shit

[RKP5637]

9. Amen!!!!!! n/t

[lindysalsagal]

6. Believe it.

[RKP5637]

7. Hmmmm, Church of Satan sounds good about now! n/t

[lindysalsagal]

10. The founders knew the only chance this experiment in representative government had was if

we detached it f rom religion: Because religious people are incapable of ever agreeing on ANYTHING.

[alwaysinasnit]

11. k&r for visibility

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Republicans, aka NatCs, Nazis, theocrats, know that their agenda is offensive to most.

They need to prey upon those who do not require logic, law, or reason. They prey upon those who are programmed to believe without question.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

THESE are the races that will determine control of the House of Representatives:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217175231

Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

[Sky Jewels]

13. The younger generations are not buying the mythologies.

Religion is a crock of bullshit and the under-40s know it.

So these loons have an uphill battle. They’ll probably just turn more people off from “faith,” aka belief in the absence of evidence.

[chriscan64]

14. The U.S. was born out of the Enlightenment

Welcome to the Counter Enlightenment.