{"id":136366,"date":"2018-05-10T07:41:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136366"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:58:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:58:30","slug":"a-look-at-mike-pence-and-exiled-american-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/10\/a-look-at-mike-pence-and-exiled-american-evangelicals.html","title":{"rendered":"A look at Mike Pence and “Exiled” American Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fascinating article in Harpers about the focus by many in the US Evangelical Christian community on the Babylonian Exile of the Jews as a metaphor for what they see as their own marginalization by American secular \/ multi-cultural society. This is important in how that focus drives the Vice President, and how it provides cover for Donald Trump, who’s seen as Cyrus the Persian Emperor by folk in this camp: Sure, he’s a brutal pagan whose ways are ungodly, but he’s God’s selected tyrant, destined under the guidance of our Daniel <\/i>[i.e., Pence] to free us and restore God’s own kingdom of Chosen People.<\/i><\/p>\n

It’s a very Old Testament mental framework, and helps explain why so many Evangelicals seem to be so gung-ho over a guy who strikes me as about as un-Christ-like as one can get. It’s because they’re focused on the highly-supported white-haired Daniel beside him as their last, best, and clearly anointed hope.<\/p>\n

(Alternately, if you are looking for a more old-school conservative view of Pence, you might want to check out George Will’s latest column<\/a>, which concludes: “Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying.”)<\/p>\n


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\n[Essay] | Exiled, by Meghan O’Gieblyn | Harper’s Magazine<\/a><\/span>
\nMike Pence and the evangelical fantasy of persecution<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A fascinating article in Harpers about the focus by many in the US Evangelical Christian community on the Babylonian Exile of the Jews as a metaphor for what they see as their own marginalization by American secular \/ multi-cultural society. This is important in how that focus drives the Vice President, and how it provides … Continue reading “A look at Mike Pence and “Exiled” American Evangelicals”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,108,378,110,1071],"tags":[1590,1451],"class_list":["post-136366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-history","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies","category-trump","tag-exiled","tag-pence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pence-exiled.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131076,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/so-it-looks-like-trump-is-picking-pence-for-his-running-mate.html","url_meta":{"origin":136366,"position":0},"title":"So it looks like Trump is picking Pence for his running mate","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Jul-16 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Or so all the Informed Rumors have it.I'm honestly not surprised. 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