Thanks for a fascinating discussion. It’s a great reminder to look at the long picture. Today I was walking in the Texas heat (for my first walk in a Covid week) and have some thoughts about David’s arguments. When he compares far right Evangelicals with the far left in general, he’s not comparing apples and oranges. He mentioned that no left-leaning denomination is a monolith and perhaps that’s a good thing. Later he compares Covid lockdown policies for churches and BLM protests. They also are not equivalent. The churches were meeting indoors and few would have the bravery to wear a mask in them. The protests were mainly outside and many were wearing masks. (Even here in Texas when I went to a BLM protest in the heat of the summer, I saw the majority masked up.)
Fantastic interview! I Listened to it in conjunction with doing The After Party course, which I highly recommend, by the way. I listened to some of it twice and even took some notes.
The best take away line of all, because I’ve been saying the same thing, almost word for word, for the last 3 years: “As soon as somebody says ‘I do my own research’, I know that, no, you don’t actually do your own research.”
Thank-you Curtis, David, and others for saying the things I’ve been longing to hear for so many years. I’m viewing all this from a canadian perspective, the the similarities are many, just not as amplified, yet.
Thanks for a fascinating discussion. It’s a great reminder to look at the long picture. Today I was walking in the Texas heat (for my first walk in a Covid week) and have some thoughts about David’s arguments. When he compares far right Evangelicals with the far left in general, he’s not comparing apples and oranges. He mentioned that no left-leaning denomination is a monolith and perhaps that’s a good thing. Later he compares Covid lockdown policies for churches and BLM protests. They also are not equivalent. The churches were meeting indoors and few would have the bravery to wear a mask in them. The protests were mainly outside and many were wearing masks. (Even here in Texas when I went to a BLM protest in the heat of the summer, I saw the majority masked up.)
Fantastic interview! I Listened to it in conjunction with doing The After Party course, which I highly recommend, by the way. I listened to some of it twice and even took some notes.
The best take away line of all, because I’ve been saying the same thing, almost word for word, for the last 3 years: “As soon as somebody says ‘I do my own research’, I know that, no, you don’t actually do your own research.”
Thank-you Curtis, David, and others for saying the things I’ve been longing to hear for so many years. I’m viewing all this from a canadian perspective, the the similarities are many, just not as amplified, yet.