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Same book, same guy named Jesus, same religion -- on paper -- but very, very different.

Mormons also claim to be "christian" and the EVs used to say they were not -- until they buried the hatchet in the name of preserving white Christian nationalist hegemony in America.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140807422/georgias-u-s-senate-race-pits-the-black-church-against-white-christian-nationali


On the surface, the Georgia Senate runoff is a race between incumbent Raphael Warnock and former NFL superstar Herschel Walker. But these two Black men have come to represent two very different religious traditions - the civil rights legacy of the Black church and a growing movement of mostly white Christian nationalism. NPR's Sandhya Dirks reports.

SANDHYA DIRKS, BYLINE: The first sermon Reverend Raphael Warnock gave after his 2020 election as Georgia's first Black U.S. senator was about God's victory over violence.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

RAPHAEL WARNOCK: We have to resist the violence of prejudice and fear and bigotry.

DIRKS: In the wake of January 6, it made sense to talk about rising political violence on the right. But that wasn't all. Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s pulpit, preached about King's final unfinished work - his 1968 Poor People's Campaign.



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Sometimes less is indeed not more.

I'm guessing something horrible and something wonderful.

Maybe the EVs committing sabotage is the horrible.

There could be several contenders for the wonderful. The vast majority of religious folks (that I've ever met or even heard about) try to engage in charity and positivity in their communities.

And many reject the fundamentalist views on today's thorniest social issues.

As a long-ago general said and as the saying went during WWI at Christmas time in the trenches: Live and let live. (A strange concept in the middle of brutal warfare though, making resumption of hostilities within short order even more tragic).

Rodney King's plea has echoed in my ears the past little while: "Can't we all get along?"

Being courteous, kind and generous to all fellow humans (and animals too) shouldn't be all that difficult.

Soldiers on both sides were disciplined after the WW1 Christmas truce became known to higher ups. More apt is what Monty Python might haver said: "Can't have peace breaking out in the middle of a war for heaven's sake."