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Originally Posted by SackAttack
You have to remember, Jon. The sort of Christians who apply faith to politics are the sort of Christians who simultaneously believe that this is such a Christian nation that the Christian God belongs in all spheres of public life (to the point that anything 'bad' that happens is the result of not toeing that line), and that Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed demographic group in American life.
That's a level of cognitive dissonance that's not worth arguing with.
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Well that's -- sort of -- how I ended up digging into the numbers on this ... especially since I resemble at least some of the aspects you describe.
The statement came from one of the more, I dunno, "mainstream" Christians I know. The kind that will have a third glass of wine, crack an innuendo laden joke, more apt to quote BBC News than LunaticFringe.comnetinfo .
Instead, she's gung ho on this theory (aka utter fiction) & I'm the one looking at the math going "ummmm ... no".
It was just one part stupid & one part weird.