@enkiv2 @fireh9lly There were a number of watershed moments that moved formerly left-wing working class churches right, but I think the single largest one was literally fear of and opposition to the atheistic Soviet Russian regime after 1917, and its Western left- and liberal enablers. The rise of the Bolsheviks gave evangelicalism and Fundamentalism a clear, conspiratorial enemy to oppose: 'secularisation of Weatern culture'. Everything else (including fascism) follows from this, I think.
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2017 22:55:44 UTC 
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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2017 23:39:17 UTC 
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@natecull Thanks for laying all this out, it clarifies several things. As a European, the weirder idiosyncrasies and mythologies of the American Evangelicals were always confusing to me.
A confluence of Mormonism, New Age, Red Scare and other distinctly American elements makes a lot of sense.
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2017 02:47:15 UTC
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@fireh9lly @enkiv2 @clacke Also - and I guess I only just now grasp this, though I knew it subconsciously earlier - to the conservative mind from the 1940s through now, through this filter, _Fascism was just a newer, more virulent form of Communism_. Both deriving from some dark spiritual Ur-Socialism From Beyond.
Yes, Conservatives initially propped up Hitler and Mussolini against Stalin. But they wiped that from their memory. They actually believe that Hitler was a Leftist.
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@natecull @fireh9lly @enkiv2 https://www.dineshdsouza.com/store/product/books/big-lie-book-signed-by-dinesh-dsouza/
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