Why The Religious Left’s New Christianity Is As Hollow As Their Beliefs
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Why The Religious Left’s New Christianity Is As Hollow As Their Beliefs

For those like James Talarico, Jesus is just an avatar for a social program.

Andrew T. Walker

Since at least the 2000s, one of the dominant trends and divides shaping American politics has been the supposed “God-gap” existing between Republicans and Democrats, with Republicans being the party more open to religious voters and the Democrats becoming the party of secularism.

This fault line is one of the most decisive and consequential realities of modern politics, with attitudes toward religion becoming one of the most stable predictors of one’s political affiliation.  The behemoth in question is Christianity, not “religion” in general. As Democrats have banked to the Left, Christian voters in America have turned hard towards the Right, finding in the Republican Party a coalition that is, for now, less hostile to their convictions than the modern Democratic Party.

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