6. In many ways, the evangelical attitude has much to recommend to it: you can't always take someone's self-profession at face value.
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7. Although I'd say evangelicals don't go far enough: true depth of belief is unknowable not just in others but in ourselves.
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8. The mind is never unitary: No matter what you believe or don't believe, there's always an internal dissent at the edges.
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9. But leaving truly nettlesome problem of belief aside, there's some tribal cultural politics at work here.
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10. Not just theologically but culturally the Christian right thinks they are the true Christians, just as they are the real Americans.
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11. To say Obama doesn't love America and that it's uncertain he's a Christian is to say the same thing: in tribal terms he's not one of us
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12. Leaving politics aside, the willingness to dismiss liberal Christianity as simply fake is an intellectual & spiritual catastrophe.
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13. Whatever its many flaws, liberal Christianity has been a noble effort to maintain a faith that is intellectual honest.
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14.A similar confusion, given greater salience by fear politics, applies to how authenticity in Islam is discussed.
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14. A popular trope (sadly promoted by some New Atheists) gives credence to violent political Islam as somehow true voice of faith.
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15. By this way of thinking, ordinary Muslims (non-AQ, non-ISIS) are not real representatives of the faith, just offering a facade.
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16. One irony in all this: religious moderation often an organic development with roots that go back centuries.
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17. Conversely, religious reaction is often not organic development but an innovation, with many novel features with no roots in tradition.
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