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Originally Posted by sjkted
I would like to change the question around and ask:
Why can't Christians be included in the truth movement?
--sjkted
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Either way. Say, hypothetically (and probably truly), good Christians are - what's a bad Christian lol - are 'right-thinking', 'decent', 'disciplined', ...
It's hard for such a person to imagine/conceptualize an atrocity of the scale. (A betrayal of faith.) Also, are Christians more patriotic than most ? (demographically-speaking re atheists, agnostics, humanists, Buddhists, Muslims, fallen, whatever. Also, are Christians more apt to swallow the government line, in step with authorities?
Are they mostly caucasian? Caucasians haven't had it bad, like other groups. Every black person knows about the slave trade, the history, the boats, the deaths on board (cast overboard), the plantations, the wealth generated by their labour. If a person has had it bad, unlawful arrests, officer was just walking down the street, shut up Chico, a person might be able to imagine how to get screwed over.
Education. It takes a bit of literacy and numeracy (basic skills) to read about 911 and wonder, try to sort it. There is a LOT of information! What's on TV, eff the reading.
No conclusions, sjkted. Good question tho'!!
I also think the GOP that helped DO it co-opts the Christian right. IMO a lot of propaganda there to mobilize 'public opinion' with hot button non/or spiritual issues like abortion, belief, command & response, ... It wasn't the GOP that knocked off Kennedy? Maybe the Christian right thinks that's OK - justifiable war rationale.
North, south polarities to exploit too. From what I've seen, in general Americans {sorry} are not so hip on global news. A lot of it doesn't come in - not allowed. BUT - it seems most everybody who went to school has the same basic version of American history. Canadians, for instance, don't learn even that, are not taught the wars, the struggles, the names, the prime ministers in order etc.
No glory version
