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Opinion | The four kinds of truth America needs to pursue reconciliation washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… From Haaarvard. Boo fucking hoo. The first step is for white evangelical Christians to try to honestly understand the society they live in and step into a reality-based world. Does

2/ reality have a liberal bent? Yes. For one thing, liberalism in academia produces new knowledge. The Christian Right starts from the very unproductive premise that the Bible supercedes and provides answers to all philosophical and scientific questions. That produces nothing but

3/ theological bullshit. Does belief in Intelligent Design lead to new scientific discoveries? No. The ID scientists quibble & kibbitz. They don't produce jackshit. I'm very sympathetic to the argument that right and left populists have a rage against the neoliberal elites. There

4/ is tons of data to support the idea that globalism and Reagan's voodoo economics have hurt the middle- and working-classes, and this partly explains voting for Trump. But, give me a fucking break. If you really believe that, you would not, logically, support even bigger tax

5/ cuts for billionaires and cutting clean water, air, soil regulations for corporations. This Harvard professor, like other commentators, simply wants to ignore a certain brand of Christianity that confounds their entire analysis. When white evangelical Protestants believe their

6/ fellow citizens are agents of Satan and that they are Christian prayer warriors in a cataclysmic, cosmic war of good vs evil, maybe, just maybe, those people ought to reexamine their belief system. My dad is 89 and went from a Goldwater GOPer to a QAnon idiot. Even Goldwater

7/ had the sense to take the off-ramp from the GOP. Other than the fact that we occupy the same time-space coordinates, we don't share any facts to discuss. And, if an evangelical or conservative is going to step into reality, one of the first issues to confront is whether or not

8/ they believe people of color who are citizens are legitimate voters, should not have their right to vote impeded, and should have their votes counted in accordance with the law. That's the starting point. The rest of these Harvard talking points are just bullshit.