I’m on vacation so not writing a full newsletter this week. But there’s a Zoom call this coming Friday, at our usual time. Our guest will be Yale sociologist Philip Gorski, co-author of the new book, The Flag and The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
" Christian nationalism, the belief that God gave the United States to white Christians"
A typically American centric point of view. There are many countries in the world in which Christianity is the official religion and/or state church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_state
With regard to Nelson Mandela, there is nothing in the statements he has made that anyone should be concerned with as they are true and pragmatic. If it causes you concern then you should examine why you are concerned, that concern may be based on being spoon fed what to believe or one’s assumptions about your own country’s behaviour.
About the George/West document. Just liking it isn't going to make me unsubscribe to your newsletter, but, since I'm an educated gay man, anything Robert George writes sends up a warning flag because he's a committed homophobe, as anodyne as this statement may be (in fact, I doubt that George really means it). The signers give me pause as well: Joshua Katz is, for example, not on the Princeton faculty any more for academic reasons yet there he is as a signatory, probably because the left came for him, not the right. Um, no thanks.
" Christian nationalism, the belief that God gave the United States to white Christians"
A typically American centric point of view. There are many countries in the world in which Christianity is the official religion and/or state church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_state
Thanks for the link to the film about Matzpen. What a fascinating film.
With regard to Nelson Mandela, there is nothing in the statements he has made that anyone should be concerned with as they are true and pragmatic. If it causes you concern then you should examine why you are concerned, that concern may be based on being spoon fed what to believe or one’s assumptions about your own country’s behaviour.
About the George/West document. Just liking it isn't going to make me unsubscribe to your newsletter, but, since I'm an educated gay man, anything Robert George writes sends up a warning flag because he's a committed homophobe, as anodyne as this statement may be (in fact, I doubt that George really means it). The signers give me pause as well: Joshua Katz is, for example, not on the Princeton faculty any more for academic reasons yet there he is as a signatory, probably because the left came for him, not the right. Um, no thanks.