Generalizations may simplify but they also antagonize. If anything humanity is and will forever be complicated...and difficult.
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Generalizations may simplify but they also antagonize. If anything humanity is and will forever be complicated...and difficult.
Very clear there you entirely missed my point. I'll not belabor it & move on.
I can think of several ranging from insurrection during civil rights leading to a great dying of rubes and the ignorant (and demographically speaking there is great overlap with these simpletons opposed to equality, and both right wing politics and religiosity), to stronger enforced state education under the guise of fighting poverty and improving the well-being of the country.
A federal law mandating standard curriculum (not even anti-religiously based science or anything, just better math and English, and better education in general) in the 1900's would go miles towards crippling the religious right. There are strong trends between education and support of secularism (regardless of personal beliefs) and economic mobility, and ties between economic mobility and religious views.
Start educating the hinterlands in a slow, methodical manner (but mandatory at gunpoint if need be), and you can have the religious right pushed back to isolated populations in the Ozark and Smokey Mountain ranges, and Utah.
So your solution to what you see as a problem is to have the US Government take over the Education system from the States. Impose a federally mandated curriculum on unwilling state and local administrators and teachers. A curriculum that is defacto hostile to their most dearly held religious beliefs, and make them pay for it via their taxes.
You then imply that if they object, that it be imposed at gunpoint.
No way that could ever go wrong...
Ya, the evangelicals tend to not be overtly racist. Patronizing in my experience, but not the sort who claim the white race as Gods choosen. I've known individuals in both groups. As was also pointed out in this thread the term Religious Right covers a spectrum of beliefs and agendas associated with Christianity & the catchall term 'Conservative'.
The evangelicalism that fueled abolishion and Seneca Falls shouldn't be confused with the evangelicalism that is found in the south today. The places where the abolishionist and Senaca Falls evangelicalism was found have secularized over time and their ideas have lost the trappings of religion while the south held on to the trappings of religion.Before the counterculture, evangelicals were associated with liberal causes - abolition (from which Seneca Falls and the suffragists ultimately emerged), conservation, civil rights. It was the counterculture that rejected Christians and caused the schism.
The evangelicalism that fueled abolishion and Seneca Falls shouldn't be confused with the evangelicalism that is found in the south today. The places where the abolishionist and Senaca Falls evangelicalism was found have secularized over time and their ideas have lost the trappings of religion while the south held on to the trappings of religion.
In present-day politics, "evangelical" usually refers to the Southern Baptist Convention.Are the evangelical churches in the Southern US different from those in the North? I am only familiar with the latter.
Are the evangelical churches in the Southern US different from those in the North? I am only familiar with the latter.
In present-day politics, "evangelical" usually refers to the Southern Baptist Convention.
Specifically, the issue of whether or not it was ok for slaveowners to be ministers.Well you have to remember that the southern baptist convention was founded in 1845 because they disagreed with their northern baptist counterparts on the issue of slavery.
Hmmm some posters are saying that the religious right started after backlash from the federal government going against religious schools.
How were they paid with tax dollars?It involved the segregation academies, where "private" schools were set up entirely to break the law by disregarding court rulings involving segregation, school prayer and a number of other things while being paid for with tax payer dollars.
How were they paid with tax dollars?
I live in the south. In my town, all the white children to the private school while the black children go to the public schools. It’s a very important issue to me
You do know that voucher programs frequently provide minority student access to better schools, right?Where do you think the idea of voucherizing education came from?