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The Christian Right Is Helping Drive Liberals Away From Religion
fivethirtyeight ^ | 09/18/19 | Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Daniel Cox

Posted on 09/20/2020 6:23:53 PM PDT by hapnHal

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To: Secret Agent Man

Since religion is not by default Christianity, being a follower of Christ, it’s really irrelevant if they are being driven away from *religion*.

If by that they imply that they are being driven away from God, they’ve been outright rejecting Him as a whole for decades now. So it’s not like any one has *driven* them from anything.


21 posted on 09/20/2020 6:42:11 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: hapnHal

The left thinks they ARE God. They don’t need or want the real One. He is antithetical to their sick, totalitarian Stalinazi agenda.


22 posted on 09/20/2020 6:42:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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To: hapnHal

Liberals are not just less religious. . .becoming “less religious” is not a journey into a vacuum. . .It means Liberals are more embracing of perverse behaviors that are an abomination to God and destructive to civil society.


23 posted on 09/20/2020 6:42:53 PM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: metmom

Interesting to note its never a problem that they feel deserves an article, that secular society does its very best to isolte and kick out the religious from all areas of society.

The open hostility to all things christian doesnt seem to merit objective discussion, much less concern, in secular media, aparently...


24 posted on 09/20/2020 6:45:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: hapnHal

Atheists don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

With no God, no Hell, and no morals, a person can do anything without fear or concern.
The ends justify the means.


25 posted on 09/20/2020 6:47:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: hapnHal

If your heart is not right you are the only one driving you away from God.


26 posted on 09/20/2020 6:48:43 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: hapnHal

Liberals destroyed the United Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church, the Presbytarian Church USA, the Northern Baptists, and a lot of other denominations beginning about 100 yrs ago. So to claim the “ Christian Right” made them irreligious is ludicrous in the extreme. Liberals drove what they called derisively “the Bible thumpers” from mainline denominations from the early 1930s on. What a pail of horse twaddle.


27 posted on 09/20/2020 6:49:27 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Liberals sometimes play at a game they call Religion or Christianity but that is all it is, a game. When the government shuts down the churches they don’t miss them.


28 posted on 09/20/2020 6:49:34 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Hos)
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To: hapnHal

The demonic possession that IS liberalism runs shrieking from the light of truth.


29 posted on 09/20/2020 6:52:08 PM PDT by prov1813man (ist)
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To: hapnHal

Yeah, if we would reject good and embrace evil the leftists would be so much more receptive to our message.


30 posted on 09/20/2020 6:52:53 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The Left thinks they are God and the tech billionaires and Soros are God’s brain.


31 posted on 09/20/2020 6:53:14 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Hosr)
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To: hapnHal

How many churches will see this and think that the answer is to water down their theology even more to appear non threatening to liberals?


32 posted on 09/20/2020 6:57:34 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: hapnHal

A lot of Team Blue Christians are blowing up my FB saying “It is because of YOU supporting dTrump that I no longer believe in GOD! YOU DAMNED ME TO HELL!”

I can not follow the logic.


33 posted on 09/20/2020 6:58:45 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
In part, yes. This article from a few days after the 2016 Election is the best I've read on this topic:

Liberals have always accused social conservatives of bringing religion into politics, but liberals have done something far worse, and far more radical: They have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.

The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa... Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.

You wonder why the left is having a nervous breakdown in the wake of Trump's election? It is because, for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. This means that, to them, political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.

34 posted on 09/20/2020 7:01:25 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: hapnHal

The so-called liberals are not liberal at all. Most of them are communist/Nazi/hard leftists who quit church ( in any real sense) years ago. If they attend it’s only for appearances or to nene business contacts.


35 posted on 09/20/2020 7:02:29 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: hapnHal
Sheesh!!

Even the Bible said thousands of years ago that men loves Darkness rather than come into the Light!

But then somehow its the Conservatives fault for what the agnostics & atheiths wants to do and live?

36 posted on 09/20/2020 7:04:46 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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To: hapnHal

During the 2016 Democrat Convention in Charlotte, NC, they BOOED God!

They said the Pledge of Allegiance, but omitted “one nation under God” this year.

They are supporting mass murder of the most innocent people.

They are exposing kindergarten and grade school children to immoral and perverted sex. And confusing them about what sex they are, forcing some to be mutilated for life.

If Christians don’t speak out against such, we have lost our saltiness and will be tossed beside the road.


37 posted on 09/20/2020 7:04:58 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?my)
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To: DoughtyOne
This tactic of never taking ownership, and the tactic of accusing everyone else of doing exactly what the demonicRats are involved in, just drives any thinking person away.

It is a core part of the doctrine of the Left, that they are never responsible for anything.

38 posted on 09/20/2020 7:05:15 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: hapnHal

The Left decided, that if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em and that’s why they’ve infiltrated all of the churches, even the Southern Baptists.


39 posted on 09/20/2020 7:07:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ifinnegan
I once had a 'friend' blame me for her friend choosing NOT to want to attend church as well.

I told her flatly to her face that God dont make robots and that her friend is free to make up their own minds.

But somehow in the end, I feel that she was really trying to guilt trip and bully them into attending church.

40 posted on 09/20/2020 7:07:51 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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