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Thank you. Yes, good point regarding the primaries. And yes, Pat Robertson’s comments were deplorable and seem to dovetail with the survey’s findings regarding the economy or money. |
• Summers-lad |
I’m glad you mentioned that the 81% is a percentage of white evangelicals, not of all evangelicals. |
But your piece raised a question (I haven’t read the article you linked, so forgive me if the answer is there): why are church members so different in their voting pattern from Americans in general, of whom less than 50% voted for Trump? If, as you say, evangelical leaders are almost evenly split politically, churc... |
So why are white church members so out of step with both their leaders and the general population? Being entirely baffled by the “evangelical” support for Trump, I would be really interested in your view. |
• TinnyWhistler |
All the reluctant voters I know enthusiastically cast primary votes for Carson, despite there not being a snowball’s chance in hell he’d win by the time those votes were cast. They clearly aren’t racist because they voted for the black guy so they’re then free to reluctantly vote for Trump against Clinton and be sh... |
• Darrell Lackey |
You raise the right questions. As noted in the post, I think it’s because their people are being formed and discipled by radical and fringe sources outside the Church, rather than through their pastors and leaders. |
• Darrell |
Thank you. Good point regarding the Republican primaries. Yes, Pat Robertson’s comments were deplorable and seem to dovetail with the primacy of the economy or material gain. |
• Darrell |
Thank you. You raise the right questions. As noted in the post, I think it is primarily because they have ceded spiritual formation to outside sources like Fox News, Breitbart, and social media in general. |
• Brad Feaker |
Full disclosure – I am an atheist. |
However, I really appreciate the points you made in your post. I live in Tennessee…that should tell you enough about my neighbors. Mostly white and evangelical. And it seems they have no shame. These are the folks who impeached Bill Clinton for consensual sex…and turn around and try to justify their support for a t... |
But I have said for a long time that the pact between the GOP and evangelicals is going to come back to haunt them both one day…and it seems that day may be drawing closer. Evangelicals are not interested in character – they are interested in power. They are losing their minds because the are failing so badly in th... |
Good post sir…you are a breath of fresh air. |
• Darrell |
Thank you very much, I appreciate that. |
• Iain Lovejoy |
That is 81% of white evangelicals who voted voting for Trump. With US turnouts bobbling just above 50% that’s probably under or around a half of white evangelicals actually voting for him, with the rest stsyng at home, which to a certain extent reflects the split in evangelical pastors. It’s still a really, really ... |
• Summers-lad |
So why would these sources have more influence with white evangelicals than with the rest of the US population? |
I don’t see a similar effect here in the UK, where I suspect (but have no research or evidence to back it up) that church members probably hold broadly similar political views to the rest of the population in their locality and social class, although perhaps with a stronger tendency towards the centre. |
• Darrell |
That’s a good question. There are probably several factors, but one has to do with these sources appealing to, or amplifying, what they perceive as already latent within that sub-group. |
• Evangelicalism is basically authoritarian in its structure, hence the appeal of conservative, right wing candidates. Think lock-step compliance to societal “norms.” The rest of society is more evenly divided and diverse. Evangelicalism is also exclusionary, again the appeal of candidates who marginalize others. If ... |
• otrotierra |
The percentage of U.S. White Evangelicals who did not vote at all in 2016 certainly do not have a reputation for standing up against Trump and his White Evangelical followers. Such a reputation has to be earned, and the responsibility is theirs alone to earn it. |
• Wait!…Ben Carson is Black? I had not idea! Oh…I get it; he’s the evangelical ideal Black man. But, yes, your observation has merit. Although I am surprised by how many evangelicals seem to be enthusiastic about Trump. I think the statement that they were choosing the lesser of two evils is not supported by their ac... |
• Iain Lovejoy |
I never said they stood up to Trump, only that they didn’t actively support him. Not caring about anyone who isn’t a white evangelical is a very long-standing widespread white evangelical tradition. Actively supporting something like Trump is a newer phenomenon and not quite as universal as the 81% figure suggests. |
• RickNowlinpa |
Thank you for providing facts to otrotierra. Facts are terribly inconvenient. |
• It’s primarily about race and the erosion of white privilege for white evangelicals. It always has been. Once again we see how little white evangelicals have moved away from the fundamentalist leanings of Southern Christianity and its views on racial relations. This president finds stoking those fears an easy task. |
• I’ve seen from various polls, such as pew research, etc., that almost a third of self described evangelicals are left-leaning, i.e., post conservative, emerging church, etc.. My wife is a good example, voting for neither Trump or Hillary. Another example is the inroads made in the acceptance of gay marriages, now a... |
• Iain Lovejoy |
While I don’t doubt that evangelicals predominantly lean conservative, this suggests to me that the “81%” figure exaggerates the picture because a lot of the lefter leaning evangelicals (like your wife) either don’t vote or (at least in small numbers) vote third party. A truer generalisation would be not that evang... |
• Looking at the Pew Research yields some interesting data that I think follows what we are both saying. Evangelical Protestants who identify as Republican measure 56% to the 28% that identify as Democrat. Close to the 30% I thought were Left leaning. Looking at Black Mainline Protestants and a different picture emer... |
America is trending Left gradually, and some conservatives understandably find that worrisome. I think it is fair to conclude that the more xenophobic tendency among SOME evangelicals is a result of political views rather than the fact that they are evangelical. That is not to say, SOME evangelicals have a theologi... |
In the long run for America, the nationalism and White privilege Trump’s administration seems to be pushing I don’t think is sustainable or will have lasting effect. I am far more worried about the right-wing evangelicals in the third world, who can do far greater damage to those democracies that are young and easi... |
• Iain Lovejoy |
The rise of right-wing evangelicals in the third world is, so I have read, heavily funded by US evangelicals. |
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Ironhaven, by Misa Buckley, was a surprisingly good science fiction romance that I received unsolicited from the author. |
The story starts as the last shuttle leaving a dying earth is about to take off from the spaceport. Lucian Hoyt believes he has a ticket on it. But he discovers when he attempts to board the ship that his ticket has been cancelled–by his parents! Since they refuse to answer his calls to clear up the mess, he is left wi... |
It’s never specified, but our earth has gotten a lot colder, and things are getting worse. Whether this is a future where the sun is just getting old, or whether we’ve screwed up the planet, it doesn’t matter. The point of the story is that everyone knows the planet is dying, but that there is plenty of time to get som... |
So Lucian gets left behind. He resents his parents for having left him, naturally enough. Lucian is used to being rich, to being part of the upper crust of society. Now, everyone he sees resents him for being one of the people who left them behind, even though he has been abandoned, too. |
All is not lost, however. In the first bar he walks into, Lucian meets a pilot, Drew. Drew knows an engineer who might be able to built a ship, if Lucian is interested. Lucian goes looking, just thinking there might be a way out of the death-spiral. What he finds is his past. |
Lucian didn’t marry Elspeth “flaming” Pennington, the rich debutante, because he never stopped loving the one woman his parents forbade him from marrying. When Lucian discovers that Genevieve Scott is the engineer, and is the only person who might possibly be able to built them all a way off their dying planet, he find... |
The question is whether either of them can get past the hurt and the scars, both emotional and physical, that five years of separation, pain and broken promises have left on their bodies and hearts. |
Escape Rating B+: I enjoyed this story very much. I really wanted it to be longer! It’s only 49 pages, and there was a certain amount of background I wanted, like what was really going wrong with the Earth, that I just wanted to know. |
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Whether you want to believe it or not, the hairstyle is one of the most important parts of a human look, especially for women. That’s why we have no doubt girls always tend to spend an arm and a leg on their hair with the hope to look their best. |
Meanwhile, a lot of girls would choose to have a long hair because of the attractive look it can bring up, and, another more obvious reason, long hair means more hairstyles to play with. |
For those girls who have hair grow too slow might often be kinda desperate to look at the goddamn sexy long-hair girls’ photos all over Instagram or Pinterest. Thus, many may choose to have a hair extension, to cut off their desperate days right away. |
However, have you known about all those hair extensions pros and cons? Are they really worth your time and that little fortune? If not, before rushing into making the appointment with your hairdresser, take a few minute to read through this post and have your own decision. |
How do they install the extension into your hair? |
First thing first, you’ll need to take a quick look into how the hair weft is going to get installed to your hair. There are basically 5 types of installment: hot gluing, taping in, sewing, looping and clipping-in. |
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Sewing extension |
Micro ring/looping extension |
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Hair extensions pros and cons |
1. Not as its name may sound, hair extension doesn't only literally mean extending the length of your hair, but also it can put some extra volume upon your choice at the salon. This is great for every sort of hair because the thickness would definitely create a drastically appealing look to the owner. And this is extre... |
2. Hair extension can last about three months to one year upon the weft quality. In the meantime, you can get your hair styled as much as you normally would want for your own hair. This is very beneficial for those who have stiff texture on their natural hair which doesn’t allow much interference from chemical and heat... |
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Meanwhile, the sewing might be too heavy and tense; this puts an extra pressure on your scalp which can cause you irritation or even headache. A long-term braid also means that your entire hair wouldn’t get enough hygiene frequently and this would cause dandruff, especially at the braids area.A clip-in and tape-in exte... |
At the same time, the micro ring metal ring is another potential harm to your hair when heat (such as from blow dryer) is applied. |
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- Have many options to think about: a standard or high-quality extension |
- All methods can cause potential damage to hair. |
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