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slskipper
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Date: July 02, 2019 10:00AM
For a long time now I have been puzzled about the way political analysts simply do not understand how essential religion is in the lives of American voters. They talk about economics and racism and a host of other factors that affect how a person may vote, but very few have grasped the fundamental place of religion in the voters' minds.
Yesterday I ran across this article that finally lays it all out. It describes in perfect detail how theology has come to define politics in America these days. I try not to get political here. But Mormonism is politics, and it has been since the rise of Brigham Young. A great deal of Mormon theology parallels, and surely borrowed from, the motifs in the article. And now I understand people like Dallin Oaks. I hope this isn't too out of line. Thanks.
https://www.politicalorphans.com/apocalypse-now-why-republicans-are-destroying-the-world/?unapproved=17048&moderation-hash=b0bbf6435cf5c5e9b5c1ff7d7530b042#comment-17048