I grew up in a rural town in Georgia, very southern evangelical. We had a Catholic church in my town, but it was a small minority. It’s been fascinating/horrifying to watch how the MAGA movement uses evangelicals as foot soldiers and Catholics as intellectuals.
Mike Pence was raised Catholic but became an evangelical as an adult. These days the reverse seems to be happening.
I grew up in a rural town in Georgia, very southern evangelical. We had a Catholic church in my town, but it was a small minority. It’s been fascinating/horrifying to watch how the MAGA movement uses evangelicals as foot soldiers and Catholics as intellectuals.
Mike Pence was raised Catholic but became an evangelical as an adult. These days the reverse seems to be happening.
Spot on. Catholic intellectuals can bring 2000 years of ‘cred’ to the task of making revanchism great again in a country where the evangelical ‘church’ is nothing more than the US ‘folk religion’.
I grew up in a rural town in Georgia, very southern evangelical. We had a Catholic church in my town, but it was a small minority. It’s been fascinating/horrifying to watch how the MAGA movement uses evangelicals as foot soldiers and Catholics as intellectuals.
Mike Pence was raised Catholic but became an evangelical as an adult. These days the reverse seems to be happening.
Spot on. Catholic intellectuals can bring 2000 years of ‘cred’ to the task of making revanchism great again in a country where the evangelical ‘church’ is nothing more than the US ‘folk religion’.