@TristanSevers Yeah, I just wish I had found this book a lot earlier; it would have saved a great deal of time!
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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 -
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@TristanSevers Speaking of which:pic.twitter.com/cKSmOK1aMY
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@Meaningness Would be interesting to trace vs. GOPe family allegiances: how much membership shift vs. same guys solving for X votes?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Some of both, but the GOP deliberately pivoted in 60/70s to pull socially conservative Southern Democrats away, successfully.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Am aware, hence the question specifically addressing elite vs. prole membership.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@TristanSevers I am going to argue that the “countercultural era” (60s-80s) “rotated politics 90 degrees clockwise”; previously, the
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@TristanSevers Republicans were the elite and the Democrats the masses; after rotation, it was religious conservatives vs liberals.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers This is probably a vast oversimplification.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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