really, really interesting
Nov. 23rd, 2004 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/456769.html
It's a bit long, but it's worth the read.
What it doesn't explain to me maybe the many, many pages of discussion do, but I have to do *some* work), is... OK, if that's the way people think and they see Bush as a Christian man fighting the forces of evil, then I can see why they would vote for him. But what I still don't get is *why* they would see Bush as a good Christian man. Surely not just because he says so. And if it were just based on his actiosn, that would be entirely circular: we support him because he's X, eveen if he does what might seem like bad things, but we think he's X because he does good things... Is it because of who endorses him? I'm still missing something.
It's a bit long, but it's worth the read.
What it doesn't explain to me maybe the many, many pages of discussion do, but I have to do *some* work), is... OK, if that's the way people think and they see Bush as a Christian man fighting the forces of evil, then I can see why they would vote for him. But what I still don't get is *why* they would see Bush as a good Christian man. Surely not just because he says so. And if it were just based on his actiosn, that would be entirely circular: we support him because he's X, eveen if he does what might seem like bad things, but we think he's X because he does good things... Is it because of who endorses him? I'm still missing something.
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Date: 2004-11-23 09:49 pm (UTC)a) he speaks in the "right language" to the local audience and at times, also, to the national audience. (There is a religious language; there is a religious evangelical language, as you know)
b) His likening of the WOT to a battle against evil fits right into the SBC mindset she describes. (CF #1)
c) The way liberals make fun of him amkes him the persecuted Christians described in the post.
What confounded me wasn't the view of Bush, but the persecution theme. That is powerful and to me extremely scary-- in a very deep spiritual way.