Voyageur
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Scary that it was that close, yet it is progress.
Herschel Walker Watch
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Alan H
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What bible thumper would vote for Herschel Walker? His life bears no resemblance to anything Christ would have given the nod to. But...whatever. Warnock won. Be happy.
I would guess that most if not the vast majority of Walker voters are Christian.
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It's the whole born again deal.
phillysailor
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Christofascists, racists and rednecks with a cross hanging from their mud machine rear view
d'ranger
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I listened to an interview on NPR Monday evening and the gist is: Evangelicals will adapt to whatever helps keep white Christians at the top of the pile. It went into a lot more details but in this erection explains why Jesus loves Walker and Warnock isn't a Christian.
bletso
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One could ask the same question about Trump. It's because they are all hyporits, plain and simple.
dfw_sailor
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Gawd save us all in Tx.
Pertinacious Tom
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Sometimes the apple lands in a different continent from the tree. Sounds like the son would be a fine politician.
Mark_K
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From their point of view it's either vote for Walker(s) of get the gay agenda rammed, crammed and slammed down their throats, probably in FEMA death camps. I'd vote for him too if I believed that was in store for me...
d'ranger
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Here is the interview I listened to on Monday evening
You have to get pretty deep into it before it discusses the motivations behind supporting a Walker over a Warnock
BRADLEY ONISHI: The country should be ordered in a way that white Christians are on top of the social, political and cultural hierarchies.
DIRKS: Christian nationalism, Onishi says, is a new name for an old phenomenon. It's a vision with white men at the top - no trans people, no gay people and people of color but only in service of white supremacy, Onishi says. At the same time, as white evangelical Republicans have embraced Herschel Walker, campaign ads and messaging paint Raphael Warnock as not a real Christian.
ONISHI: He represents somebody who's talking about collective change and systemic racism. Well, that would upset the order.
DIRKS: Pastor Daniel Darling says it's wrong to question Warnock's Christianity, but his political record does conflict with core evangelical beliefs.
DARLING: A lot of the conservative evangelicals or conservative voters might look at him and say, you know, the positions he's taken on the sanctity of life and other issues seem to conflict with my understanding of scripture. So I think that is a fair assessment.
DIRKS: It's not just Warnock's support for abortion rights, Darling says. Evangelicals prize religious freedom. They want to be able to support and uplift the families and lifestyles that fit their longstanding historical definition of family and morality.
Reverend Jaqui Lewis, pastor at the progressive, intentionally diverse Middle Church in New York, says the problem isn't with the freedom to practice personal beliefs. The problem is when people want to force those beliefs onto others.
JAQUI LEWIS: It is insisting on its own way. White Christian fascism believes it is chosen to dominate the world.
DIRKS: What's different now, Lewis says, is the right, and white Christian nationalists have incorporated diversity.
LEWIS: And the story that we're being asked to adopt as true is white power matters. And a Black senator might be elected to maintain white power.
DIRKS: Because in the end, that's what this is about - power, the power of a certain understanding of religion to shape politics and of politics to shape religion.
You have to get pretty deep into it before it discusses the motivations behind supporting a Walker over a Warnock
BRADLEY ONISHI: The country should be ordered in a way that white Christians are on top of the social, political and cultural hierarchies.
DIRKS: Christian nationalism, Onishi says, is a new name for an old phenomenon. It's a vision with white men at the top - no trans people, no gay people and people of color but only in service of white supremacy, Onishi says. At the same time, as white evangelical Republicans have embraced Herschel Walker, campaign ads and messaging paint Raphael Warnock as not a real Christian.
ONISHI: He represents somebody who's talking about collective change and systemic racism. Well, that would upset the order.
DIRKS: Pastor Daniel Darling says it's wrong to question Warnock's Christianity, but his political record does conflict with core evangelical beliefs.
DARLING: A lot of the conservative evangelicals or conservative voters might look at him and say, you know, the positions he's taken on the sanctity of life and other issues seem to conflict with my understanding of scripture. So I think that is a fair assessment.
DIRKS: It's not just Warnock's support for abortion rights, Darling says. Evangelicals prize religious freedom. They want to be able to support and uplift the families and lifestyles that fit their longstanding historical definition of family and morality.
Reverend Jaqui Lewis, pastor at the progressive, intentionally diverse Middle Church in New York, says the problem isn't with the freedom to practice personal beliefs. The problem is when people want to force those beliefs onto others.
JAQUI LEWIS: It is insisting on its own way. White Christian fascism believes it is chosen to dominate the world.
DIRKS: What's different now, Lewis says, is the right, and white Christian nationalists have incorporated diversity.
LEWIS: And the story that we're being asked to adopt as true is white power matters. And a Black senator might be elected to maintain white power.
DIRKS: Because in the end, that's what this is about - power, the power of a certain understanding of religion to shape politics and of politics to shape religion.
Walker v Cruz? Damn , that’s a hard one to sort out.
Mrleft8
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I would bet that they claim to be Christian. But that doesn't make them Christian, any more than my claiming to be a Buddhist monk makes me one.
Mrleft8
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"Herschel Walker, ASS RANGER!"
I gotta say if someone "claims" to be Christian, I take their word for it. Who am I to say they are or are not? Now, if they claim to be an accountant, I can check on that, but an adherent of any religion? Kinda up to them, no?
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Mrleft8
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A red state now has two blue senators because of one orange man.
A Blue Jew, and a Black Blue....
Crosses gone be burnin' tonight!!! (In private of course..... Racists know when they been whupped...)
A Blue Jew, and a Black Blue....
Crosses gone be burnin' tonight!!! (In private of course..... Racists know when they been whupped...)
Mrleft8
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I gotta say that if someone claims to be my brother, I do not take their word at it. Who am I to say they are not? I am my mother's only son. If you tell me that you're my stepbrother, I might have pause for consideration.... And ask for some sort of proof.
But if you claim to be a Christian, and act in ways that are completely contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ, I will tell you to your face, that you are not a Christian.
Being your brother is a testable hypothesis. Being a "Christian" is not. I'm pretty sure very few professed Christians meet your definition. You're going down the "no true scotsman" path.
Olsonist
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Pew says 41% Fascists, 41% Democrats and 18% independents. Purple and so statewide it comes down to candidate quality.
Religious Landscape Study
Explore the geographic distribution and demographics of America's major religious groups.
www.pewresearch.org
Oh, it was Erick Erickson. But he's a right wing idiot who was a Never Trumper and then a Trumper and is now a Born Again Never Trumper.
