<div dir="ltr">Thank you David, a powerful indictment of the Christian right in the United States, hopefully their credibility has been fully destroyed by this self-serving idiocy!<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:27 PM David Walsh via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">






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<div>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.</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/evangelicals/" target="_blank"><font size="4" color="#0563C1"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u>Evangelicals | Comment Magazine (cardus.ca)</u></span></font></a></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Georgia" color="#4D96AE"><i>by </i><a href="https://www.cardus.ca/comment/browse/contributor/pwehner" target="_blank"><i>Peter Wehner</i></a></font></div>
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<div><font color="#282828">“The crisis facing American evangelicalism goes much deeper than Donald Trump and the Trump presidency. Mr. Trump didn’t appear <font color="black"><i>ex nihilo</i></font><font color="black">; 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</font><font face="Calibri" color="black">.”</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#282828">In her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Pews-Partisanship-Political-Environment/dp/022655578X" target="_blank"><font color="#4D96AE"><i><u>From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity</u></i></font></a>,
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.</font></div>
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