Steve and Milo's alt-right great adventure: the rise of "Churchiness" makes the sacred profane...
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The alt-right’s rage against institutions and lawful authority has gone far beyond political infighting. Reactionaries have co-opted the Republican party and partnered with religious extremists who now serve as cover for their anti-Christian drift towards fascism. Protestant evangelicals have joined with radical Catholics to preach the gospel of intolerance as they willfully ignore the bigots, racists, and repugnant fellow travelers who have found a home in their midst. Religion, in general, has always provided a useful safe harbor for con artists and pretenders but, now, religion has itself fallen victim to its own inability to sanction extremist interpretations of its teachings. The battle is always rooted in whether the “word of God” in whatever Testament, Bible, Koran, or ancient-text-of-choice should be taken literally enough to justify an evil cause. Literal readings of biblical lines sometimes substitute ungodlike phraseology for wisdom:
Steve and Milo's alt-right great adventure: the rise of "Churchiness" makes the sacred profane...
Steve and Milo's alt-right great adventure…
Steve and Milo's alt-right great adventure: the rise of "Churchiness" makes the sacred profane...
The alt-right’s rage against institutions and lawful authority has gone far beyond political infighting. Reactionaries have co-opted the Republican party and partnered with religious extremists who now serve as cover for their anti-Christian drift towards fascism. Protestant evangelicals have joined with radical Catholics to preach the gospel of intolerance as they willfully ignore the bigots, racists, and repugnant fellow travelers who have found a home in their midst. Religion, in general, has always provided a useful safe harbor for con artists and pretenders but, now, religion has itself fallen victim to its own inability to sanction extremist interpretations of its teachings. The battle is always rooted in whether the “word of God” in whatever Testament, Bible, Koran, or ancient-text-of-choice should be taken literally enough to justify an evil cause. Literal readings of biblical lines sometimes substitute ungodlike phraseology for wisdom: