Mixed feelings on discovering that my thesis that ‘80s Religious Right mirrored hippie counterculture is old hat: http://amzn.to/23zH2QG
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Replying to @Meaningness
I’ve spent the past couple weeks reinventing the wheel. Contemporary Evangelical Christianity is dualist hippie-ism.pic.twitter.com/48NgmzuQAD
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@Meaningness I actually love it when this happens since it lets me adjust my expectation that I'm not completely off-base upwards a lot.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@TristanSevers Yeah, I just wish I had found this book a lot earlier; it would have saved a great deal of time!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness If this thesis is true though, when did "born again" become central to Christian practice & what used to occupy that place?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Yeah, that was basically invented in the mid-1970s, and popularized by Chuck Colson, who was one of the nastiest of Nixon’s >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers > gang of thugs. It’s basically “Enlightenment experience” for Christians.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@TristanSevers Nothing occupied that place because real religions don’t have that nonsense. They are about conduct, not experience.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@Meaningness ...and you again remind me that the past is an alien world.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@TristanSevers It’s impossible to do history before you’re ~45 and have seen something of how things change. My own past is utterly alien,
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@TristanSevers and at the same time utterly familiar. Did you know, in the Olden Days, people carried maps printed on huge pieces of paper?1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes - 1 more reply
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