[lbo-talk] Christians from Hell

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Dec 16 08:29:39 PST 2004


snit snat wrote:
>
> long but worth reading:
>
> http://www.blackcommentator.com/118/118_think_kilson.html
>
> Think Piece: Notes on the Democratic Defeat: Conservative Christian Atavism
> or "Christians from Hell"
>
> According to the Washington Post columnist David Broder's analysis of exit
> polls in the 2004 Presidential Elections, "about 22 percent of voters were
> white evangelical or born-again Christians, three-quarters of whom went for
> Bush." This kind of White conservative Christian voting for the Republican
> party's presidential candidate translated into 30% of Bush's total national
> vote.

Does their xtianity flow from their conservatism or their conservatism from the xtianity, or do both flow from some X not covered in the exit polls?

What evidence is there that their religious belief is an independent variable?

In other words, this sort of focus on two out of 100s of variables in their lives seems evidence of nothing.

Carrol



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