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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

When people are genuinely mystified by people of faith, the best explanation I can give is one I encountered as a teenager when I read "Jesus Rediscovered" by Malcolm Muggeridge, a socialist and atheist who became a Christian, because this was my experience of it as well. I offer excerpts here: /1

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Mainly the ignorant magical thinking

dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible

religious right evangelicals Christian fundamentalists.

Without the religious right there would never have been a president Trump.

Anti-abortion, anti-gay, etc., is what drove the Trump presidential Train.

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