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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024

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There are a lot of flyover state Republicans who will vote for Donald Trump this November but who - largely - agree with social justice theology within a Christian framework.

...with the exceptions, as you note, of CRT, BLM, Gays and Abortion, which between them comprise the majority of Social Justice's most visible ideological commitments. As my father was fond of saying, if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs.

Christianity is, to put it gently, an awkward fit for actual racism and misogyny, though humans are certainly capable of the contortions necessary. Opposition to such things does not imply a yearning or even an acceptance of progressive "social justice". What Christians are is civil. They are not, generally speaking, revolutionaries, and they try to fit in and live in peace with others to the extent that doing so does not require disobeying their understanding of God's commands.

It is probably true that many Christians consider themselves to largely be in agreement with the New York Times. This is because the New York Times, like most media organs, is a purpose-built propaganda machine designed explicitly to manufacture consent and to present itself as the voice of reasonable civil society, and that it has a long history of routine deceit about where we as a society were, are, and are going. That does not change the fact that a very large chunk of serious Christians are fundamentally opposed to the Times' actual aims and goals, and that a wildly disproportionate percentage of the opposition the Times faces in those goals comes from Christians.

...with the exceptions, as you note, of CRT, BLM, Gays and Abortion

And trans.