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The Real Origins of the Religious Right
They'll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record's clear: It was segregation.
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Friend of ours was a journalist in Lynchburg in the early 80s, covering Falwell. She used to get harassed while jogging and receive hate mail. Nice crowd at that "church." Pre-pool boy days.
#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-10-31 08:43 AM | Reply
Many or even most of the divisions in America today date back to the Civil Rights era and have been with us from that time; cThe Right ombined several emotional issues to cd-1960's. Opposition to the Vietnam war was branded "unpatriotic" by conservatives because the reasoning behind that war was we were fighting sgainst "Godless Communism." And the right held onto that even after we came to our senses and got out of Vietnam but soon after that 9-11 happened and provided a "Pearl Harborlike Event" that George W. Bush used to justify invading Iraq though it is documented that the plsn had been laid out years before 9-11 so that we could capture Iraq's oil fields (PNAC). So the Right combined several emotional issues to create a powerful political force they combined white resentment of Civil Rights, simple minded flag waving patriotism, objections to birth control and abortion combined with Evangelical Christianity, fear of women's liberation and gay rights and called it opposition to "Woke". The Right gained significant power this way which is still exerting tremendous desire to move our nation back to what conservatives view as better times so I just wanted to pick one major part of their coalition and look at where it really came from. I'm old enough to remember the growth of the major parts of the conservative coalition appearing in American politics and when they seemed to join other parts to create what Trump named MAGA, though without specifying the year that was so great we should want to return to it but it is obviously in the past, probably 40-50 years ago.
#2 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-31 09:47 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 3
MAGA:
"Everything was all fine and dandy until 1967 when the Beatles grew mustaches and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" hit the theaters.
#3 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-10-31 10:23 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." - Barry Goldwater
#4 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-31 10:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6
KKK was/is ostensibly "Christian".
#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-31 09:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
"KKK was/is ostensibly "Christian".
I think moost Evangelicals still have their KKK robes and hoods stored up in their attics just in case they are needed again.
#6 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-31 11:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
funny, I call them the "religious wrong" I also say to stay away from christians, because them is a bad people. The modern face of american christianity seems more like satanism to me.
#7 | Posted by bus_driver at 2024-11-01 12:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Religion, especially Christianity, has always been a cover for doing terrible things. America, sadly, from its inception, has had a strong 'hatred of others' streak (aka racism). You would have thought that we had progressed beyond this by now, but the fact remains, only part of the country wanted to go along with 'bettering ourselves'. A large part of the country (a large part of the white part of the country) had little interest in going along.
And here we are. In a hate filled spite filled country, where half of the country wants to progress and move forward, and the other half is in love with its own hate and regressive thinking...
#8 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-11-01 06:46 AM | Reply
#7
Don't say that. The satanists are good people. They support abortion rights, separation of church and state, teaching of actual science, and LGBTQ+ rights.
thesatanictemple.com
And that group doesn't believe in a literal satan, or any gods.
#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-11-01 07:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
No kidding it was about segregation. It was called the "Southern Strategy" and it was all about leveraging "christian" outrage at the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and extended under Title VII in 1972 and the desegregation that came with it. Thanks Nixon... (Not you Nixon but the original one...)
#10 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-11-01 09:50 AM | Reply
#2 | Posted by danni
I dare say even further back to the colonies. The Civil War was just the first breaking point.
#11 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-11-01 09:52 AM | Reply
It became an issue when the unwed mothers' homes... the institutions catering mostly to wayward white girls... emptied.
#12 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-01 01:02 PM | Reply
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