Not aiming this at op, who presumably has an interesting theory cooking, but ngl I'm getting kinda tired of all these 'left theological' takes. The forces of reaction are currently sweeping across the west, abetted by an alliance of evangelical and catholic orgs and there are still people who want to blame everything on 'calvinism' as if that were useful analysis and not just thinly veiled sectarianism.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the strain of that informs a lot of the current/last 50+ years of evangelical thinking and they're ascendant in power. it's surface level, but it's not wrong

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Catholicism has been way more influential on the US right ever since the nineties. Catholic orgs were instrumental in getting GWB into power and have led the charge in capturing the supreme court, rolling back reproductive rights etc. A majority of SCJs are in fact Catholic, and many leading political figures, including the VP. Catholic dogma informs the social policy around which this block agitates. However, none of this is to say that there is something uniquely problematic about belief in transubstantiation or whatever; my point is that trying to pin political problems on theology is an absolute dead end.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

It really doesn't and isn't. The guys running the evangelical right arent the fucking Presbyterians.