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This anti-intellectualism has a strong connection with Evangelical Christianity in America and the connection has a long history.
by jsnider3 1y ago
This anti-intellectualism has a strong connection with Evangelical Christianity in America and the connection has a long history.
- jmyeet 1y agoI'm a strict atheist but am generally neutral on religion. It depends on the output. What people should know is that even within a religion like Christianity there are vast differences between sects. Jesuits are not Southern Baptists, for example. A lot of texts from antiquity were preserved by the Catholic monastic tradition through the Middle Ages. Theology in the Roman Catholic sense has always been treated as an academic discipline. Evangelicism arose primarily in the US as a byproduct of "manifest destiny" combined with no access to academic theologians. Sects popped up based on "plain" readings of religious texts. Put another way: it's almost entirely vibes-based. But none of this really matters because religion is never the reason for a conflict such as this. Religion is simply the veneer applied to motivate the masses. The actual motivations are always materialist. In this case that means a settler colonial project to disrupt a region of strategic improtance.