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Bill Maher Denounces People Who “Mocked” Or “Justified” Charlie Kirk’s Assassination: “Very Ugly Week In America With Violence Of All Kinds”
#Politics #BenShapiro #BillMaher #CharlieKirk #CharlieKirkassassination #CharlieSheen #RealTimeWithBillMaher #TimAlberta

https://deadline.com/2025/09/real-time-with-bill-maher-charlie-kirk-assassination-1236530737/

"The money raised by dubious methods was evidence of God’s blessing on the project, thereby sanctioning ever-more-dubious methods to raise ever more money."

#TimAlberta #evangelicals #MoralMajority #ReligiousRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #hucksters
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"This practice of preying on unwitting believers [by spinning narratives of impending catastrophe brought on by imagined anti-Christian forces] was central to the business model of the Moral Majority and its successor groups. ….

Little by little, [Cal] Thomas told me, the limits were pushed. The successes of the Moral Majority became self-justifying:"

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In his new book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Tim Alberta, talks about the exploitative business model of the Moral Majority and its offshoots, which gin up fear and rage among people convinced the US is going to the dogs, and which profit from that fear and rage as dollars pour in.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/12/donald-trump-and-the-implosion-of-the-american-evangelical-movement