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According to @Prjct2025, "The last time our nation and movement were so near defeat, we rallied together behind a great leader …. It's time to do it again." https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
A number of difficulties with #MAGA's religious appeals have been discussed, but one has generally escapted close scrutiny. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
The #MAGA slogan's use in response to the 11 September terror attacks may have helped lay the groundwork for the slogan's subsequently greater religious entanglements. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
By portraying the religiously correct viewpoint as wholly on #MAGA's side, the movement insulates itself from religious critique. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
#MAGA's religious appeals regularly illustrate strategies for portraying the religiously correct viewpoint as wholly on #MAGA's side. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
The "visible" church is the church in its concrete manifestations as it must always, beset with many stumbles, seek to follow its Lord more perfectly. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
The need to be able to be found in the wrong is one way of explaining how the difference between the "visible" and "invisible" church arises. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
A party's dismissal of critiques does not attest to its correctness, only its decision to ignore ways of improving. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
To exercise its role properly, a given party must always lay itself open to being shown to be in the wrong or losing. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby
To exercise its role properly, whether within the American political system or elsewhere, any given party *cannot be* always the "winner" in a contest with another. https://t.co/habiKM0HkA @CentreKirby