01-18-2020, 06:50 PM
(01-18-2020, 06:24 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(08-11-2019, 08:22 AM)Anthony Wrote: It feels just like the 1850s.
I'll carry it one step further: 2019 feels just like 1859.
1859 was highly polarized over the issue of slavery. What's the single issue of polarization today?
As in 1859, race, expressed primarily by immigration, is #1 - but the old Culture Wars standbys of abortion and homosexuality are still very much in play.
And then there is this:
https://religionnews.com/2020/01/17/we-c...tionalism/
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892