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Buckeye_Democrat

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28. I honestly suspect that they live in a fantasy world.

Mon Feb 1, 2021, 08:22 PM

Feb 2021

Donald had excellent training to believe whatever he wanted to believe from Norman Vincent Peale, a friend of his father, when he was young.

Positivity now... insanity later.

EDIT:
Norman Vincent Peale Was A Conservative Hero Known Well Beyond His Era
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/24/894967922/norman-vincent-peale-was-a-conservative-hero-known-well-beyond-his-era

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Popular as Peale and his wisdom became, some critics dismissed Peale's lines as mere bromides, scarcely worthy of note. Other scientific and religious thinkers found the Peale approach downright dangerous.

A Methodist bishop of the 1950s called Peale's following a cult, saying it worshiped success rather than Christ. A leading Unitarian minister in Washington D.C. called the Peale program "an escape from reality."

The prominent theologian Reinhold Niebuhr said Peale's teachings "corrupted" the Christian gospel and "hurts people too ... helps them feel good while they are evading the real issues of life."
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