[Craic] Re Evangelicals

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all sad but true. similar problems caused rise of Franco in Spain.  

On 2020-12-24 13:27, David Walsh via craic wrote:

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> This article has interesting points about 'Evangelicals'.-- re our discussion last Saturday. I expect one could write a similar piece on the over 50% of Catholic who supported Trump. 
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> Evangelicals | Comment Magazine (cardus.ca) [1] 
> _by __Peter Wehner_ [2] 
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> "The crisis facing American evangelicalism goes much deeper than Donald Trump and the Trump presidency. Mr. Trump didn't appear _ex nihilo_; he took advantage of the opening he was presented. If during the Republican primary in 2016 evangelicals hadn't rallied in such large numbers to support Trump when every other candidate was far more deserving of their support, at least based on any previous metric evangelical Christians said mattered to them, Trump would never have won the nomination." 
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> In her book _From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity_ [3], Michele Margolis of the University of Pennsylvania shows how it's not simply our religious beliefs that shape our politics, but our politics that shape our religious choices. It turns out partisan identity can have an overpowering and pernicious effect. 
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> David 
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[1] https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/evangelicals/
[2] https://www.cardus.ca/comment/browse/contributor/pwehner
[3]
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Pews-Partisanship-Political-Environment/dp/022655578X
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