(March 26, 2018 at 8:44 am)Khemikal Wrote: Wapo ran a story today with an ambitious headline.
Quote:Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren’t rejecting Trump. This is why.
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Quote:Our points to a different answer than others have offered. Voters’ religious tenets aren’t actually what’s behind Trump support; rather, it’s Christian nationalism — their view of the United States as a fundamentally Christian nation.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monk...732d1f67ab
I think that they might have missed something utterly basic in their attempt to dignify this continued support by way of ideology, though. That he cheated on his hot young wife bareback with pornstars and playmates doesn't make the man repulsive to them, in truth..it makes them want to be him. It adds to the myth of his celebrity, and it's that myth that's always been compelling to them - even if other myths are equally compelling. Like the myth that this is a fundamentally christian nation, or the myth that the trumpster ever could (or even -would-) make it so.
Pretty much anyone who thinks morality depends on the existence of a god is pretty much intrinsically indifferent to immoral behavior, apart from making it right with God after the fact with sufficient appeasement leading to forgiveness. Actually behaving morally is not as important as admitting you're a sinner. Kind of gives the green light to Trump's sort of behavior. Definitely a selling point for certain kind of xtian.
