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Question: USA's GOP evangelicals=Taliban?
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« on: September 02, 2021, 08:17:26 AM »

90 day poll.
This comparison is now being made. I am curious to see what you'all think about it.
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2021, 09:44:54 AM »

It's the equivalent of calling me a 'baby murderer.'

Creeping religious authoritarianism in the West isn't some 'top down' capture. It's grassroots in it's formation and appeal and served by well meaning 'but I wouldn't go that far' fellow travellers.
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2021, 09:58:39 AM »

It's the equivalent of calling me a 'baby murderer.'

Creeping religious authoritarianism in the West isn't some 'top down' capture. It's grassroots in it's formation and appeal and served by well meaning 'but I wouldn't go that far' fellow travellers.
Good point.
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2021, 12:16:05 PM »

If Evangelicals=Taliban than the US before the sexual revolution=Taliban.
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2021, 12:27:09 PM »
« Edited: September 02, 2021, 12:33:33 PM by Science is not a liberal conspiracy »

If Evangelicals=Taliban than the US before the sexual revolution=Taliban.
Actually the poll says GOP evangelicals, and I shouldn't have generalized.
Not all GOP evangelicals think alike. Perhaps even a majority of GOP evangelicals should not be labeled as the same as the more extreme ones.

Also evangelicals are not the same as Islamic rightwing
extremists in one way. Evangelicals don't tend to hate one another. Islamic right wingers seem to be much more divided. It is true that some Catholics and Protestants hate each other, although this may be changing, but in Islamic theocracies Sunnis and Shias seem to hate each other, from what I have heard (I am talking about the extreme ones). I don't really know, because I am not an expert on Islam. Certainly many Muslims (there is at least one at Atlas), are very good people.

I am thinking mostly about how popular Trump is and he certainly is not the nicest person in the world, by far. Even Trump is not an anti-vaxxer, but he caved in pretty quickly to those who booed him for saying that he got vaccinated.
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2021, 12:07:32 AM »

The Taliban shares more in common with groups like ANTIFA or BLM (dead horse, I know, but you’re the doofus using “Christian Taliban!!!” memes in 2021) than God-fearing Americans who love this country.
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« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2021, 10:18:15 PM »

What is the point of comparison supposed to be here?  "People whose beliefs about society are influenced by their religion in a way I don't like?"

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