Over the last few months I've been pondering (online) over progress. @DouthatNYT , @EricRWeinstein , @BretWeinstein and others have been talking about it. I found amazon.com/Decadent-Socie… helpful 1/7
Line up and compare @RootAndrew 's amazon.com/Pastor-Secular… with @DouthatNYT 's piece in the NYT today nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opi… 2/7
.@RootAndrew correctly notes the mainline hit their peak at the civil right's movement, but it also brought on their decline. 3/7 
Watch @DouthatNYT track the same thing here. 4/7
And listen to a guy like @JohnHMcWhorter line up "third wave anti-racism" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… and watch how antiracism becomes "systemic antiracism" shenviapologetics.com/an-antiracism-… @NeilShenvi 5/7
and back to @DouthatNYT . He also noted "if you didn't like the young Christian right you're really going to have issues with the post-Christian young... frankly right or left... 6/7
Religion is always, Politics is proximate now. Your progress will be your religious ceiling. If you want to use words at the most basic level, you'll find yourself using religious words. 7/7
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