This thinking is also why the evangelical left is so often hostile to conservative Christians: it’s not the Christianity that bothers them so much as the repudiation of progressivism. Being explicitly Christian is one of the few things that gives people social cover to freely espouse antiprogressive views. The conflict is a sectarian one and theref

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can I predict what their reaction will be to what I say? why would a reasonable person disagree with my position? if I am so smart, and they are so dumb, why can’t I use my intellect to understand what they’re stuck on and convince them?