Benjamin Cremer reflects on lessons he learned about women and abortion growing up in a hard-right white Christian nationalist evangelical church in Idaho:
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Benjamin Cremer reflects on lessons he learned about women and abortion growing up in a hard-right white Christian nationalist evangelical church in Idaho:
"As time went on, I soon realized that I couldn’t hold my hardline stance on abortion without also holding demonizing beliefs about women and disregarding their lived experiences."
#abortion #women #churches #Christian #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"I realized that in my belief system, I wasn’t loving women as my neighbor like Jesus was calling me to, but rather, I was treating them like an enemy to be conquered in order to save the unborn. I realized that I wasn’t really 'pro-life' because I was dismissing the lives, rights, and well-being of women. Instead of seeing their lives as being just as sacred as the unborn, I reduced their entire personhood to an immoral caricature of someone I was told to hate."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
John Pavlovitz talks to fellow white Christians:
"After nearly a decade of pretending, they finally received white Presidential consent to be outwardly racist—and the dam of their suppressed bigotry burst and they let the toxic hatred flow freely: along with their festering hatred of LGBTQ human beings, their long-simmering misogyny, their hostility toward immigrants, their fierce white supremacy. Donald Trump normalized all of it."
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/will-white-christians-finally-elect
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
A TPM reader in western Pennsylvania tells Josh Marshall why he's not hopeful about the election:
"I also don’t think there is anything Harris can do to win them over. What they really like about Trump is his sense of grievance, and his whining. They don’t want policies to bring back the golden days when coal miners all had a gold plated Rolls Royce."
#Trump #MAGA #Pennsylvania #WhiteVoters #rural #WorkingClass #grievance #racism #xenophobia
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Lots of people have pointed out that elections are not usually about which policies the voter thinks will make stuff better for them or the country, and more which candidate they identify with. They identify with Trump, and pointing out his increasingly irrational speeches or his shitty policies will not help, especially not when you are asking them to accept Harris. It is really the whining, I think, that matters most."
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Pamelareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy We rejected it in 2016 but lost because of a broken system, again in 2020 when we beat the broken system, and we need to bury it once and for all in an avalanche that defies the broken system in numbers too large to challenge!!!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SoGeneris for Harris/Walz last edited by
@SoGeneris Excellent. Timothy Snyder is so good.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Pamela last edited by
@luv_wins I hope for this, certainly.
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SoGeneris for Harris/Walzreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy This point has really rung true to me as I watch Trump supporters -- they don’t seem to actually expect him to make things better. It’s more about hurting the other side more.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SoGeneris for Harris/Walz last edited by
@SoGeneris Yes, this is what I see, too. I live in a deep red, highly evangelical, poorly educated state, and I see this in so many people around me. They need someone to blame for their misery, which is real misery but is in many ways self-chosen misery, since they vote for people who take advantage of them and do not value education.