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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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@TristanSevers oh and duh I never made this connection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_teshuva_movement …2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing Thanks, I didn’t know about that—will read (long article!). I do have https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Renewal … friends
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@sarahdoingthing I jokingly refer to my https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Renewal … friends as “Tantric Jews.” (They’re pretty far out even for Renewal.)0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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