Former Bush aide Gerson is

artappraiser — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:22:30 +0000

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Former Bush aide Gerson is totally with ya, moat:

The religious right carries its golden calf into Steve Bannon’s battles

By Michael Gerson @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 16

At the Family Research Council’s recent Values Voter Summit, the religious right effectively declared its conversion to Trumpism.

The president was received as a hero. Stephen K. Bannon and Sebastian Gorka — both fired from the White House, in part, for their extremism — set the tone and agenda. “There is a time and season for everything,” said Bannon. “And right now, it’s a season for war against a GOP establishment.”

A time to live and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to uproot. A time to mourn and a time to embrace angry ethnonationalism and racial demagoguery. Yes, a time to mourn.

There is no group in the United States less attached to its own ideals or more eager for its own exploitation than religious conservatives. Forget Augustine and Aquinas, Wilberforce and Shaftesbury. For many years, leaders of the religious right exactly conformed Christian social teaching to the contours of Fox News evening programming. Now, according to Bannon, “economic nationalism” is the “centerpiece of value voters.” I had thought the centerpiece was a vision of human dignity rooted in faith. But never mind. Evidently the Christian approach to social justice is miraculously identical to 1930s Republican protectionism, isolationism and nativism.

Do religious right leaders have any clue how foolish they appear? Rather than confidently and persistently representing a set of distinctive beliefs, they pant and beg to be a part of someone else’s movement. In this case, it is a movement that takes advantage of racial and ethnic divisions and [....]

Alberta is basically claiming

moat — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:38:27 +0000

In reply to Donald Trump and the Dawn of the Evangelical-Nationalist Alliance

Alberta is basically claiming that Trump is a form of just war for certain evangelicals.
Sounds like a totally cynical bargain to me: When the power of the Word fails, just take up a blunt instrument.

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