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The right established a norm that every single politician must be a christian, even though many are clearly faking it. Up until the 2010s it was right-wingers demanding censorship of media. Illiberal leftist cancel culture is a recent development, puritanical cancel culture has been going on for thousands of years. Which doesn't mean illiberal leftist cancel culture was justified as "revenge" for puritanical cancel culture, they are both bad and often for the same reasons. I switched on a dime from complaining about conservatives to complaining about SJW feminazis in 2012. I expect the same from conservatives who supposedly believe in free speech. It's incredibly annoying when the side currently in power pretends that they have no power and refuses to even attempt to wield it responsibly.
All we have is government power (for now) and it’s not at all universal (see the anarchotyranny of the UK and Canada)
That’s a tradition, and no it wasn’t the right. Christianity was what the country was founded on.
The country was founded on religious freedom and separation of church and state. The founders were significantly less Christian than any powerful politicians after their time. Even a democrat nowadays couldn't get away with blaspheming the way Jefferson did. After "under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance and the currency, everyone has had to pay the Jesus tax.
The founding documents make reference to a Creator. Who is this creator if not God? How can man be “created equal” if there is no creator?
Whoever built the computers that are running the simulation we're in. The founders called him the "clock maker" but that's how I interpret it now.
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He didn't say they weren't very religious, he said they weren't very Christian. Obviously the "Creator" refers to God. But not to the Christian God.
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You're quite wrong, the US was founded because the old country wasn't christian enough for the desires of the pilgrims.
The pilgrims founded Massachusetts, not the US. And "wasn't Christian enough" is misleading - that's they way the pilgrims saw it, but "the wrong kind of Christian" is how a neutral observer would describe it.
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I don't share your confidence in straighforwardly categorizing the second great awakening as a work of "the right".
It’s always been a bit of a thing for sure, but I think the commenter above is referring to the Cold War era where right wing actors added “under God” to the Pledge, and stuff like that. Also around the same time the first Catholic was President and begrudgingly accepted as also OK.
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