Perhaps true to say that voting as a private expression of private reflection is protestant, broadly speaking, to the extent that the rest of our civic infrastructure in the U.S. is protestant. Maybe too a liberal/mainline view emphasizing sufficiency vs a left/Evangelical view leaning on conscience
Some day, I want to write a piece about how both liberals and leftists often over-individualize the act of voting in a way that seems fundamentally Protestant and counter to the intrinsically collective nature of voting.
I’m a Protestant living in a Brooklyn Mother-Cabrini-level neighborhood and even I know this is accurate.
seeing a lot of “pulling up the ladder” discourse but this scans to me as social/religious conservatism winning out more often
Across left and right, there's a deep-rooted inclination in US political culture to locate causality in individual moral responsibility. Protestant ethic and all.
No. The Federalist Society takes no stand on any religious viewpoint and its members include a wide range of Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and other believers, including many Nones like myself.
speaking as a cradle Catholic-turned-Episcopalian, there are ConCaths—some of whom are weird right-wing converts like Vance—who invoke St. Michael mainly for engaging in “spiritual warfare,” i.e. culture war bullshit with a hellfire-fearing Catholic spin as opposed to an evangelical Protestant one
Yeah, arguably “colonial” is related to “Christian,” though. It feels v American to me too (blah blah Protestant dissenter type origins of US), but I’m always wary of that bc as an American it’s hard to distinguish “american” from my own mental framework
how long is an acceptable amount of time to be sick my diseased protestant brain says about 4 hours