10:34pm
June 1, 2015
“For much of the 20th century, America’s evangelicals felt marginalized. They hunkered into a subculture of their own making — congregations, denominations, Bible camps, Bible institutes, private colleges, seminaries — to protect themselves from the depredations of an outside world that they believed was both corrupt and corrupting. When they emerged into the political arena in the late 1970s, enraged by the rescission of tax-exempt status for segregated schools and later galvanized by opposition to abortion, they came to believe that their values were under attack. Despite their numbers and their growing political influence, they still felt, in Huckabee’s words, scorned and mocked.”
—Mike Huckabee’s rhetoric of religious victimization (via azspot)
America has had 44 christian Presidents out of a possible 44, yet Christians like Huckabee feel they have no representation and their influence is under attack.
I say you can’t be tax-free and highly political. One or the other.
(via liberalsarecool)
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