People are often religiously affiliated for the exact same reason they are politically affiliated: they grew up that way. Thus, my son, who expresses pretty liberal views also thinks he's a republican.
"I'm a republican right mom? That's because daddy and my brothers are." The last time that happened, I stood there and said, "You just got done bitching about the way corporations rip everyone off and screw people over. You're a republican? What?" He grinned. Mind, I refused to shove my politics down my son's throat when he grew up. I figured he had enough to deal with in this world, he didn't need that albatross. *shrug*
He can listen to me all day long and agree with me, but he thinks he's supposed to be a republican because the men in his family are a certain way. And once in that milieu he falls for the bullshit hook, line, and sinker. Not entirely, of course, because he comes to me to get a reality check on some stuff. But the fact is, he lives in a certain milieu, the conservatives have a loud voice, and it influences him, how he thinks, and how he acts in the world.
At 12:42 PM 2/20/2013, Carrol Cox wrote:
>I still think politics drives religious affiliation. The members of
>evangelical groups were first of all anti-social services and became
>evangelicals to express that perspective.
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>It makes no sense to see pure ideas as causal.
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>Those involved in changing the world become concerned with interpreting the
>world.
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>Those involved with interpreting the world go on interpreting the world.
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>Action is always prior to the understanding that motivates it.
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>Carrol
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> > Subject: [lbo-talk] evangelical antipathy to taxes / governemtn
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> > awhile back, we discussed some research analyzing evangelical literature
> > (e.g., xtian mags like Awake! and the like) which showed that there was a
> > concerted effort to stir up antipathy to government and taxes. Reasoning
> > was that, by reducing the tax burden, churches could expect to fill their
> > coffers with the monies that might otherwise have been paid to taxes.
> >
> > Ring a bell with anyone? It was, granted, a brief discussion.
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> > shag
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