Gore: creationism OK

[kelley]

rakesh, wojtek was talking about the way religious othering was significant
in the development of nationalism in the US circa 1800s. not today.   i
mean this was pretty clear from his ref to E. Europe, no?  to point to the
groups that he pointed to is hardly surprising and not necessarily
malicious or even forgetful given that, while true, there certainly was an
influx of asian immigration there were significant geographical and urban
spatial reasons why the idea of asian religions didn't come into obvious
play wrt protestantism, at that time.  furthermore, i'd say that ange's
insistence that we focus on racialization would be important here.  this is
particularly true if you think further back to the rise of protestantism in
europe in the first place which very much did define itself against the
Other of catholocism and judaism as barbaric, authoritarian, anti
democratic, and decadent.  And don't forget that the jew was the
dark-skinned moor, right?  in any event,  we should examine the
self-identity of white protestantism and how it defined itself against and
targeted certain Others with some Others being more prominent given
particular historical circumstances.