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[news] Outlets should routinely consult psychologists and historians to ask the vital questions: How do people abandon rationality? What drives their fury and anxiety? How does an authoritarian figure maintain his hold on followers? How do ideas of racial purity play into it?
@walterbays May white, Evangelical Christianity go the way of the Arians.
I have agonized over these considerations, and find that Dostoevsky, amongst others, is a good starting place. Walker Percy pays a lot of attention to moral tepidity and slow rot, as well.
There is nothing new under the sun about moral corruption, willful ignorance, and cruelty.
Also Victor Hugo 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@walterbays . Mental illness, feelings of inadequacy.
There’s no way to know if evangelical leaders could have prevented this devolution of their faith by joining together to stand up to Trump before he became such a mythic figure. But now, more than seven years into their deal with the devil, it’s probably too late.
MAGA Has Devoured American Evangelicalism https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/maga-evangelicals-iowa.html