In what world do we have a post-religious right? It's as religious as ever! It's in fact shocking how it has stayed this religious *despite* the rise of the total unaffiliated population www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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IMO “post-religious” in this context means keeping the aesthetics of religion (symbology, rituals, etc) while throwing out the actual teachings. They view “identifying” as Christian as more important than actually living up to Christ’s example.
jul 29, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
that is not something unique to this era!
jul 29, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of them are not affiliated with a church or religious community but have adopted Christianity as a cultural affiliation because of their politics
jul 28, 2025, 10:27 pm • 2 0 • view
It's not though. Actual church going has significantly declined on the right and mainstream protestantism has completely collapsed. We don't have a "religious" right so much as a widespread evangelical derived social conservativism uncoupled from any other facet of religion. It's why QAnon boomed.
jul 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 165 17 • view
The thing is, while these are distinct phenomenons, if you're one of the people they want to kill, the distinction is pretty meaningless.
jul 28, 2025, 10:27 pm • 63 0 • view
This is very true, but I do think it's having massive impacts on stuff like refugee programs and foreign aid.
jul 28, 2025, 10:40 pm • 12 0 • view
Marco Rubio is Christian Russell Vought is Christian Hillsdale is Christian Claremont is Christian
jul 28, 2025, 10:43 pm • 6 0 • view
Tom Homan is Christian www.ncregister.com/news/tom-hom... Pete Hegseth is Christian Doug Burgum is Christian Kristi Noem is Christian
jul 28, 2025, 10:45 pm • 4 0 • view
This is bigoted, man. This is just "Religious = Good Behavior and Not Religious = Bad Behavior." Okay, church attendance has gone down. The vast majority of Trump Supporters still believe in Christianity in the abstract at least.
jul 28, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
No. It's "listening to pastors was basically the only thing keeping low trust conservatives from going 100% national murder-suicide."
jul 28, 2025, 10:57 pm • 14 1 • view
The collapse in organized Christianity on the right is what produced the assault on USAID, refugee programs, and a lot of other positive programs that were retaining support among church leadership. The organized churches rallied hard against Trump in the GOP primaries.
jul 28, 2025, 10:58 pm • 21 1 • view
The death cult of the post-religion right is where you have a bunch of people who are politically evangelical in the sense that they maintain horrific attitudes as to LGBTQ while abandoning every other facet that at least created *some* pro-social tendencies on other issues.
jul 28, 2025, 11:00 pm • 18 1 • view
I was wrong about the Churches being anti-USAID and PEPFAR. But still, most Churches in the US will at least be tacitly pro Trump. And we'll see what happens now that they're "allowed to endorse." Most are still Pro-GOP clearly, and I see Trumpism as the logical conclusion of the GOP's ideology.
jul 28, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump was supported by most evangelicals in the 2016 primaries. He could not have won without them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
jul 28, 2025, 11:37 pm • 3 0 • view
A couple of those names had earlier endorsed Ted Cruz, but overall Ted Cruz's clergy endorsements were much less impressive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
jul 28, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Evangelicals aren’t an organized church
jul 28, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Evangelicals are many organized churches, including the Southern Baptists, the second largest denomination after the Catholics
jul 28, 2025, 11:44 pm • 2 0 • view
The pastors are also advocating national murder-suicide Evangelicalism is associated with far-right politics internationally, not just in the US
jul 28, 2025, 11:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Very much a case of people catching strays.
jul 28, 2025, 10:28 pm • 7 0 • view
Indeed, the ultimate conclusion I'd personally draw from Douthat's statement here is that there wasn't *enough* panic and dislike of the religious right 20 years ago.
jul 28, 2025, 11:17 pm • 27 0 • view
Trump's cabinet: like 20 or so Christians plus Stephen Miller and Elon Musk Christians on Bluesky: "Look what the non-religious people made us do!"
jul 28, 2025, 11:19 pm • 9 0 • view
Evangelical is now more of a political label than a theological one. And that's before we get into the rather broken catechism of many self-proclaimed Christians that often veers into heresy and apostasy.
jul 28, 2025, 10:28 pm • 34 1 • view
A lot of self-proclaimed Christians these days blatantly worship Donald Trump.
jul 28, 2025, 10:38 pm • 23 0 • view
The phrase "the sin of empathy" is one of the few things that I feel comfortable labeling outright apostasy.
jul 28, 2025, 10:40 pm • 38 4 • view
Absolute antichrist stuff. The kind of thing that you'd have expected out of a cartoonish Bush era dystopia.
jul 28, 2025, 10:42 pm • 21 0 • view
I blame John for not fudging “mortal head wound” into “a couple of centimeters from a mortal head wound.”
jul 28, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I know people who have started saying they are a, "follower of Christ," instead of Christian
jul 28, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
And the nasty, cynical, not even trying to hide it sublimation of "Christ is King" as code for "I hate Jewish people and Judaism"
jul 28, 2025, 11:13 pm • 5 0 • view
jul 29, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
just because it doesn't follow traditional orthodoxy doesn't mean it isn't a religion. folk religion is still religion! the woo-woo church of the west coast is a religion despite having no real priests!
jul 29, 2025, 3:14 am • 2 0 • view
this is silly. Christians in both parties organize against non-Christian politicians
jul 28, 2025, 10:31 pm • 4 0 • view
You're just doing no-true-Christian in a country where almost every politician is Christian for *waves hands* no particular reason
jul 28, 2025, 10:32 pm • 4 0 • view
The invocation of prayer in public statements is very much part of the enforcement mechanism of this phenomenon
jul 28, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
They aren’t a majority, but they’re certainly there. The Joe Rogan/Steve Bannon/RFK Jr dirtbag MAGA alt-right, whatever you want to call it. I guess the folks who swim in the shit stream on Sunday?
jul 28, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view