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And so it begins. Second Great Internet Atheist War, exactly 20 years after the first one.
No idea if Vivek wanted it, but if he insists in returning to God talk of halcyon times of Bush admin, this is what he will get, together with second, even more crushing defeat.
And it was completely unneccessary, nothing about current material and cultural battles is about religion.
The other nine proposals lead to concrete political demands and actions, but what about this one?
"God is real", then what? Teach
creationismintelligent design in schools?If there was something good about Trump and Trumpism, it was dropping this futile and embarrassing stuff. Now you want to bring it back?
Just start your points with "America is great" or something similar. This will energize your base and enrage your enemies much more.
It means ‘defend me, fellow monotheists, it’s not any more of a bridge that voting for a Jew’. Prejudice against East Indians and mistrust of the few remaining actual believing pagans(which is what Hindus are, far more so than the fools dancing naked and calling themselves pagans) are things he has to deal with, even if as I suspect his real goal is to secure a powerful minister without portfolio position in a second trump admin. The upper 1/3 of the GOP base- where he gets his support from- is basically all practicing Christian and have a formal doctrinal commitment to seeing Hindus as savages that would be burning widows to appease the cattle they worship if the British hadn’t stopped it and casting himself as a monotheist is a way to turn that from outgroup to weird fargroup.
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He's trying to play to the Republican base which is still very Christian. He wants to paint himself as a monotheist like them, not some polytheistic animal worshiper like how most Christians view Hindus. Maybe he would be better off ignoring it, but he thinks it's important to be ahead on this issue.
Pence still has 4-5% of the vote. Which might be the best represtantitive of the nice Christian vote.
Trump voters do seem to be somewhat post-Christian. The ones who grew up Christian but quit going to church.
Some of my current threads I believe have a bit of how do I deal with racial gaps and lbtq while being a nice Christian.
Pence is not popular among the ‘Christian’ vote, any more than among any other voters.
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He's going to be savaged by also-rans in the debates. "Vivec, since you decided to bring up religion, you think Jesus Christ is not our Lord and savior, don't you?"
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