The Religious Right Isn’t What It Used to Be
The New York Times article to which this link points is long but well worth reading. To me–I grew up in a pious family then became an anthropologist–it rings true, both to what I learned to feel as a child and to what I learned to think in graduate school. The important message here is the resurgence of interest in values like those expressed in “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” which is a long way from the market fundamentalism that sees individuals as fungible workers and consumers, resources to be exploited.
Posted: October 28th, 2007 under Ain't That America, Religion.
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Comment from Josh Hammond
Time: October 29, 2007, 8:55 am
I take it that the article you refer to is the cover story for the NYT Sunday magazine. The link didn’t work properly for me on your post.
The article was very interesting and it explains, if not documents, why there is no consensus about a front-runner on the Pug side. I still think 75 to 80 percent of “them” will vote Republican next year since no amount of Bible-carrying by the Democrats makes an impression.
If the Democrats don’t win next year, then the Supreme Court will get another notch on their bible and we’ll all be in deep trouble for a long time to come.
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