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I found the pointed reference to 'Born Again Christianity' political, and in line with NYT political philosophy. The NYT will go to great lengths to point out
by RickJWagner 6y ago
I found the pointed reference to 'Born Again Christianity' political, and in line with NYT political philosophy.
The NYT will go to great lengths to point out alignment with right-side politics in such matters. Left-side alignments seem not to get much mention, at least as far as I can tell.
- octonion 6y agoAs a subscriber to the New York Times, that's exactly the opposite of what I've observed. A frequent criticism, in fact, has been interviewees not being identified as GOP political agents.
- nl 6y agoIn the context of the sentence (contrasting the banality of the roles the murders tried to take with the crime) it didn't seem political at all: "In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom, a rogues’ gallery of criminals who tried to start new lives — as a born-again Christian, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a babysitter."
- jasonwatkinspdx 6y agoEvangelicalism in Mexico is a considerably different topic than in the US as well.