Another great piece -- thanks. The Taylor Swift stuff made me stop taking conservative Christian critiques of culture seriously. (Well, most of them. Obviously, I take yours seriously.) A woman who knows she's a woman whose songs repeatedly reference the desire for love and a forever relationship with a man (and whose songs also take seriously the heartbreak that results from involvement without commitment) falls in love with a masculine man in a meritocratic pursuit (nobody DEI hires in football) and somehow she's public enemy #1 to nearly everyone to my political right. This even though my favorite of her songs also causes me real pain due to how TRADITIONAL it is in a way my life doesn't allow for (not everyone has a dad who gives a damn of whom an intended husband could do what the man in the song does and *seek permission from her dad* before telling her to *pick out a WHITE DRESS*). Oh, and did I mention she's a billionaire entrepreneur who creates jobs?
The ONLY reason to make a caricatured villain out of this woman is that she votes for Democrats. That's all. But nobody will be honest and say that. Instead they pretend all this numerology bullshit has meaning. It's absurd, and it made me wonder how many of their other cultural critiques I've taken seriously when I shouldn't have.
It’s awful, right? The best way I know to answer your question is to link to a really insightful article by Janet Mefferd. I think she explains it really well. She’s got a couple of well-researched articles in The Christian Post on the general topic of Christian nationalism.
Another great piece -- thanks. The Taylor Swift stuff made me stop taking conservative Christian critiques of culture seriously. (Well, most of them. Obviously, I take yours seriously.) A woman who knows she's a woman whose songs repeatedly reference the desire for love and a forever relationship with a man (and whose songs also take seriously the heartbreak that results from involvement without commitment) falls in love with a masculine man in a meritocratic pursuit (nobody DEI hires in football) and somehow she's public enemy #1 to nearly everyone to my political right. This even though my favorite of her songs also causes me real pain due to how TRADITIONAL it is in a way my life doesn't allow for (not everyone has a dad who gives a damn of whom an intended husband could do what the man in the song does and *seek permission from her dad* before telling her to *pick out a WHITE DRESS*). Oh, and did I mention she's a billionaire entrepreneur who creates jobs?
The ONLY reason to make a caricatured villain out of this woman is that she votes for Democrats. That's all. But nobody will be honest and say that. Instead they pretend all this numerology bullshit has meaning. It's absurd, and it made me wonder how many of their other cultural critiques I've taken seriously when I shouldn't have.
Amen. Fully agree!
It’s awful, right? The best way I know to answer your question is to link to a really insightful article by Janet Mefferd. I think she explains it really well. She’s got a couple of well-researched articles in The Christian Post on the general topic of Christian nationalism.
https://www.janetmefferd.com/p/christian-nationalists-emerging-as