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Mike Pence: “Throughout most of American history, it's been pretty easy to call yourself Christian. It didn’t even occur to people that you might be shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible. But things are different now.”

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
The Evangelical Persecution Complex: The theological and cultural roots of a damaging attitude in the Christian community theatlantic.com/national/archi…
Christians who seem surprised that they could be shunned for teaching the Bible ... apparently haven’t actually read the Bible.
It is fair to say that when Pence refers to “Christians” in this instance, he mainly means the conservative white evangelicals who backed Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
“Perhaps evangelicals might spend less time playing the victim and more time addressing their failures to deal with systemic racism and or their failure to welcome strangers in the form of refugees and immigrants,” @JohnFea1
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The latest from “if your Christianity does not look like my Trump-supporting Christianity, then it’s not even Christianity at all” ...
Thinking that Buttigieg’s comments about faith are centered on winning Trump’s most supportive white evangelicals appears to be a fundamental understanding of so many things about faith, politics and identity politics.
And justifying how evangelicals can make room for a straight man who has yet to deeply discuss his faith & allegedly cheated on his 3rd wife w/ multiple women in adult entertainment but not a married gay man who regularly discusses how his faith shaped him is just ... yeah.
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One of the reasons our society struggles to dismantle white supremacy is because it too often is treated as irresponsible, childish “boys will be boys” behavior opposed to the deadly, dangerous worldview that it actually is.
My 65-year-old mother, who helped integrate her high school in North Carolina, still to this day will not go to a class reunion because of the trauma she experienced being a black female teenager in Southern public schools in the 1960s.
TRUST ME: If after experiencing racism at work, school, church, etc., we could just “walk it off,” we would!
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"Simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well." - Ross Douthat

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Most days, I consume journalists and pundits talking about Americans and I think:

"they aren't talking about people like me."

But some days, that truth is more clear than other days.

Today is one of those days.
I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
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When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
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