William Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

“In seeking to hasten the end of the world, evangelicals often make it worse for others who do not anticipate being snatched up into the clouds to sit by Christ's side as the seas boil and Satan takes possession of the earth."

~ Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (NY: Legacy, 2024), pp. 95-6

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

"For those who are not perennially looking out for signs of Armageddon and awaiting it as a child waits for a father to return, the drama of the Apocalypse looks merely like a collection of people who, in waiting for the world to end, are actively worsening life in the present."

~ Ibid.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

“Catholics make up 21 percent of the US population; 59 percent of US Catholics are white, and, according to a Pew Research Center poll, 49 percent of white Catholics in the United States are Republican. The math adds up to a significant addition to the ranks of the Christian Right."

~ Ibid., p. 102, citing “Religious Landscape Study,” Pew Research Center

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

"While evangelical Protestants were and are the primary constituents of the Christian Right, reactionary Catholics such as [Phyllis] Schlafly have been more than happy to go along for the ride even if some of the theology involved disagrees with their creed."

~ Ibid.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

“[T]he truth is that the rise of the Christian right has its roots in segregationism and has grown to accommodate a generalized backlash against the social changes that accompanied the civil rights era."

~ Ibid., pp. 102-3

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

"To the faithful, the shift from anti-integration to antiabortion activism came from the same source, the wellspring their pastors led them to: the infinitely malleable, infinitely instructive Bible, an indispensable tool for the sophist and the power seeker as well as the believer.”

~ Ibid.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

"By the 1970s, the public association of southern white churches with segregationism had damaged the image of the Christian Right. In adopting the antiabortion struggle, evangelicals saw themselves as engaged in a battle for the civil rights of the unborn—a new conflict every bit as morally weighty as the struggle against slavery or Jim Crow."

~ Ibid., pp. 103-4

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Oct 17, 2025

"The struggle against abortion was the new abolitionism, & this time, they would be on the right side of history. That the adoption of an identity as abolitionists—explicitly, in some cases—was somewhat grotesque on the part of a group most famous for having stood fairly in the path of integration and civil rights was beside the point; it was a chance to redress a past moral failing by donning the very vestments they had once derided.”

~ Ibid.

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