Yeah. I can only really speak as to the attitudes of American evangelicals, who only became a major sect in the 19th century. They’re wild, though.
Even up until the 1980s, they were mostly detached from American politics - that was the sinful outside world, to them. In the 1980s, television preachers and the Republican Party announcing an openly reactionary ‘Christian’ platform made them a major force in US politics, as politics has become intertwined with their ideas of salvation, which we’ve been dealing with ever fucking since.
Yeah. I can only really speak as to the attitudes of American evangelicals, who only became a major sect in the 19th century. They’re wild, though.
Even up until the 1980s, they were mostly detached from American politics - that was the sinful outside world, to them. In the 1980s, television preachers and the Republican Party announcing an openly reactionary ‘Christian’ platform made them a major force in US politics, as politics has become intertwined with their ideas of salvation, which we’ve been dealing with ever fucking since.
The “moral majority”. That was their name for it.