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Posted on 2/25/16 at 12:48 pm to Iosh
Posted on 2/25/16 at 12:48 pm to Iosh
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The decline of religiosity probably has as much to do with Trump's rise as anything. For a lot of people it's a form of cultural signaling rather than a true faith.
There's a lot of truth to this. I'd venture the argument that people who culturally identify with Christianity but do NOT actually go to church more than a couple of times a year at most are much more likely to be Trump supporters than any other group. The identification with traditional America and traditional American values that has been placed in an affirmation of Christian faith by someone who never goes to church as sort of proxy now has a new home in Trump. Supporting Trump is the new way to say "let's be aggressive, nuclear-family-having, red-meat-eating, work-ethic-having, law-abiding, building great things, AMERICANS" for people who aren't really religious. TRUMP is the proxy for all of that instead of saying "I'm Christian, but it's a personal faith... I don't like churches".
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Posted on 2/25/16 at 12:53 pm to Cooter Davenport
And by the way, I TOTALLY get that. My wife and I have talked at length about how we wish it was possible for us to believe in religion just so we could have a church where we could make friends and socialize and have things to be involved in outside of work and home. We definitely see the CULTURAL VALUE of old-time religiosity, there's just no getting us to believe in it. It's kinda sad, the passing of that church-based community from our society. But that said, I don't think there's a "going back"... people my age (30s) just aren't religious. Both my parents and my in-laws are, but that's passing with Baby Boomers I think. Cruz was trying to tap into something that's gone. It was there in the 90s, but he doesn't realize the sun has set on that being a major force. It's like someone who doesn't know that frosted tips aren't in style anymore.
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