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In reply to the discussion: Nearly two-thirds of white women in Alabama voted for accused child molester Roy Moore [View all]haele
(15,090 posts)And there's a nasty strain of White Nationalistic Christianist identity bigotry yearning for "the better days" when the country was just one big happy paternalistic family and everyone knew their place under the Big Daddy-Man who doled out goodies to those who please him and gives a celestial whuppin' to those who step out of line.
Where a "Good White Christian" could stand above everyone else and either ignore or sneer at them because you were the good son or daughter, and those "others" were the bad seed.
The reason these Return to the Anti-Bellum Evilangelicals (no matter where they live - not just in the South!) desire Jesus' second coming is that the belief they cling to insures when he does return, they'll never have to grow up and take responsibility for their own actions and feelings. The return of Jesus ensures world ends before they lose their privileged emotional construct and are forced to grow up and face reality...
It's a very simplistic, childish way of looking at things, and even highly educated people fall victim to simplicity when faced with a large, frighteningly complex Universe to live in. These people, like children, want to make the World - and ironically by extension, the Creator God they supposedly believe in - small enough to drown in the kitchen sink when Reality starts to rear it's uncaring head.
Haele