[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 12:11:23 PDT 2010


Doug Henwood wrote:


>> So what exactly is the political effect of believing in the inerrancy
>> of the bible?
>
> It makes white people more conservative than they should be.

What's the evidence of that?

Belief in inerrancy is widespread in the South. Political conservatism is widespread in the South. Don't you think both are probably caused by the same thing - a historically backward, rural, labor-repressive social structure - rather than one causing the other?

SA



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