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submitted 1 year ago by deacon@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[-] deacon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is such a great observation that it seems obvious as soon as I read it, but it didn't occur to me at all, especially in the sense you have framed:

The decline of Christianity isn't a dissipation, it's a contraction towards the hard core.

Gaming that out leads to some pretty alarming scenarios, and that's relative to the alarming scenario we are currently living through!

[-] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The hard core was always there, the more moderate ones were just cloaking it

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