Caldwell points out that Ayn Rand hated Reagan for his alliance with the religious right and his late-found opposition to abortion. She was wrong, though. Reagan could make any sorts of utterly meaningless advances to the religious groups, knowing that the totality of the ethos he (and Rand) were promoting would soon relegate these religious folks to the dustbin of history. And we are seeing it right now when the ultra-progressive Stacey Abrams argues that abortion is necessary because it’s good for business and Bernie thinks that the economy and the environment will flourish once third-world countries start aborting a lot more.
It becomes easier to see these parallels once we abandon the deep-seated need to divide the world into “good guys vs bad guys” and congratulate ourselves on being on the side of the good guys.
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Religious right is growing and we’re going to lose abortion rights. And those are not good defenses of them (the ones you cite).
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Have you looked at the recent statistics of church attendance and religious self-identification? They show the exact opposite. And that makes sense because consumerism and religion don’t coexist.
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But religious right is growing, regardless of whether or not they go to church. Look at Trump’s pastor
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What religion do they practice if they don’t go to church (or mosque, or temple)?
In reality, rates of religious identification are collapsing, church attendance is collapsing but we are fed these fairy tales about the scary religious white supremacists in order to keep us distracted while we are being robbed.
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I might live in a bubble of religiosity and church attendance then — most people I know are quite religious, those who aren’t have a support group, I seem to be the only one who doesn’t need either a church or a support group for the absence of one
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