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lees1975

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Tue Jul 9, 2024, 09:57 PM Jul 2024

Exposing the political religious right as pseudo-Christian.

https://baptistnews.com/article/ministers-of-propaganda-decodes-false-gospel-of-religious-right/

The anti-Christian ideology of the Religious Right is “facilitated by propaganda that manipulates political, intellectual or religious ideals in order to preempt dissent and silence” those who disagree, he claims.

“Much of what’s described as evangelical deconstruction is essentially an effort to decode propaganda that’s embedded in the ideology of the Religious Right.”

Coley says it’s this powerful propaganda — not Christ’s gospel — that leads many to question or abandon their faith: “I contend that much of what’s described as evangelical deconstruction is essentially an effort to decode propaganda that’s embedded in the ideology of the Religious Right.”

Propaganda comes in many forms and involves the selective use and presentation of information and misinformation in order to advance or harm an agenda, person or institution. The form of propaganda Coley highlights is “rhetoric that appropriates an ideal in order to perpetuate intellectual or social practices that contradict that very ideal.”
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Exposing the political religious right as pseudo-Christian. (Original Post) lees1975 Jul 2024 OP
Funny coming from a Baptist Blue Full Moon Jul 2024 #1

Blue Full Moon

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1. Funny coming from a Baptist
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 03:59 PM
Jul 2024

I use to take my family to Baptist church. The preacher would give sermons on RW talking points. Would tell the people in the church to vote republican. Needless to say that was enough and the job I got around then, was shift work and the perfect reason to not go.
(Was told to go to that church because they hired people who went there. Government contractor at that.)

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