A Religious Right Crack Up?

[Joe the Revelator]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017609.php


It's worth noting that both sides of the fissure believe the culture war has effectively been lost, but they differ wildly on the diagnosis. For religious right leaders, the culture war flopped because they faced too many enemies (popular culture, changing norms, progressive interest groups) with too few allies (no Republican follow-through). For those like Deace and Thomas, the war never should have been fought in the first place, because it required principled Christians to effectively become political lobbyists.

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Excellent news.

[Ilsa]

1. No Republican follow-through? Blame Bush. Not that I care. nt

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Well, if they admit that the war is over, perhaps thaey should just all go home,

curl up in the corner and fast until the Rapture comes. Then the rest of the planet can live in peace, minding their own business, without the meddling of those who inject their interpertation of a Higher Power into every discussion and issue.

[tosh]

3. Great suggestion!

"...fast until the Rapture comes." :rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

5. A girl can dream.

:evilgrin:

[Warpy]

4. I think young Evangelicals have wised up to the fact

that their elders were simply manipulated into serving the interests of the rich by playing on their dogmatic opposition to abortion. The GOP held all three branches of government for six years and the rich got their taxes cut but abortion remained legal.

Evangelicals, despite their other shortcomings, aren't all stupid. They know they've been had.

[Monk06]

6. Hammer hits nail on head. Good onya Warpy. The Fundies were used and now feel abused.

[izquierdista]

7. ...aren't all stupid

To the extent that you can pull the same scam only 8 or 10 times instead of a hundred, yes. If you want to know exactly how gullible they are, ask a televangelist with a private jet, he knows. He knows EXACTLY how gullible they are.

[Warpy]

9. Most of the people I've known through the years that bought

all the televangelist crap were older, poor, and rural. They don't know about the diamond mines in Africa, the multiple jets, the palatial houses. All they know is that somebody is offering them a way to bribe their way out of hell and they're all for it, whatever it takes.

The kids who have grown up in the megachurches are just a little savvier, it seems, and realize they've been used for decades.

[sufrommich]

8. I hope you're right about that. It's always seemed weird to

me that poor and working class evangelicals were so blind to the fact that their fearless leaders never really managed to accomplish or even attempted to implement any of their promised goals of a moral and Godly government. The disconnect is amazing.