" The Reagan era began a few years later, and along with it came the blurring of the separation between religion and politics."
I take serious issue with that statement my friend. The incubator for the civil rights movement was the black churches out of which emerged quite a few Reverends who led the good fight in the 1960. In that same era there was an ecumenical movement in support of the moral issue of black equality. Jews and Christians marched together in support of black equality. In that same era no one objected to the anti war work of the Brothers Berrigan who were both Jesuit priests.
I would contend that only when the Catholic Church went high profile in the anti abortion fight did the Left decide that the line between religion and politics had been crossed. The left does not have a problem when organized religion supports its agenda but squirms and squeals when its agenda is opposed.
i disagree with most of your musings but I think you are gifted writer and enjoy your work.
Separately, I dont think I will be posting on Twitter any more. It is a toxic echo chamber.
My wife who is mainland Chinese, tells me that has been a similar movement within China under Xi Jinping. They changed the curriculum so teach/reinforce the traditional Chinese values very young in order to instill respect/submission to ones parents and by extension the government, and so unlike her generation the new generation coming out is super/hyper patriotic.
There we go, the big aha moment. I knew it was never about babies :-) Interesting that some of those names are missing from Wikipedia, I'm guessing our liberal teen movement didn't know that about LLBean.
" The Reagan era began a few years later, and along with it came the blurring of the separation between religion and politics."
I take serious issue with that statement my friend. The incubator for the civil rights movement was the black churches out of which emerged quite a few Reverends who led the good fight in the 1960. In that same era there was an ecumenical movement in support of the moral issue of black equality. Jews and Christians marched together in support of black equality. In that same era no one objected to the anti war work of the Brothers Berrigan who were both Jesuit priests.
I would contend that only when the Catholic Church went high profile in the anti abortion fight did the Left decide that the line between religion and politics had been crossed. The left does not have a problem when organized religion supports its agenda but squirms and squeals when its agenda is opposed.
i disagree with most of your musings but I think you are gifted writer and enjoy your work.
Separately, I dont think I will be posting on Twitter any more. It is a toxic echo chamber.
All the best.
JJJ
My wife who is mainland Chinese, tells me that has been a similar movement within China under Xi Jinping. They changed the curriculum so teach/reinforce the traditional Chinese values very young in order to instill respect/submission to ones parents and by extension the government, and so unlike her generation the new generation coming out is super/hyper patriotic.
There we go, the big aha moment. I knew it was never about babies :-) Interesting that some of those names are missing from Wikipedia, I'm guessing our liberal teen movement didn't know that about LLBean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy