TC, thank you for reposting this by From. When he says that Fascism is a secular religion, he is so correct. (I've said this more than once in comments about MAGA, et al) This means that all the rational arguments against Trump and MAGA fall on deaf ears. It will require a "conversion' process of unknown type and trajectory---and equival…
TC, thank you for reposting this by From. When he says that Fascism is a secular religion, he is so correct. (I've said this more than once in comments about MAGA, et al) This means that all the rational arguments against Trump and MAGA fall on deaf ears. It will require a "conversion' process of unknown type and trajectory---and equivalent of the great religious revivals of the late 18th and 19th centuries that transformed a nation of scattered religious commitment (especially on the frontier) to the increasingly Christian America of the 19th and 20th century. Returning to what this nation was in terms of a secular belief system focused on the Constitution, etc etc (what Robert Belah rightly called 'American Civil Religion') will require a massive wave of conversions from the fascist and rightwing evangelical belief system. (for those who recognize the name, Charles Finney, 2nd president of Oberlin College and the great revivalist of the early and mid 19th century is a good example of what I mean by a wave of conversions.......conversions for him were moral as well as specifically "religious"---Oberlin was famous for its antislavery and abolitionist commitment, among other things) How this happens is cloaked, as usual, among the mysteries of the future. What is certain that the readers of this newsletter need to be constantly engaged in action. to shape that future...........
TC, thank you for reposting this by From. When he says that Fascism is a secular religion, he is so correct. (I've said this more than once in comments about MAGA, et al) This means that all the rational arguments against Trump and MAGA fall on deaf ears. It will require a "conversion' process of unknown type and trajectory---and equivalent of the great religious revivals of the late 18th and 19th centuries that transformed a nation of scattered religious commitment (especially on the frontier) to the increasingly Christian America of the 19th and 20th century. Returning to what this nation was in terms of a secular belief system focused on the Constitution, etc etc (what Robert Belah rightly called 'American Civil Religion') will require a massive wave of conversions from the fascist and rightwing evangelical belief system. (for those who recognize the name, Charles Finney, 2nd president of Oberlin College and the great revivalist of the early and mid 19th century is a good example of what I mean by a wave of conversions.......conversions for him were moral as well as specifically "religious"---Oberlin was famous for its antislavery and abolitionist commitment, among other things) How this happens is cloaked, as usual, among the mysteries of the future. What is certain that the readers of this newsletter need to be constantly engaged in action. to shape that future...........