[Michelle Goldberg's new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism] opens with a portentous description of an interpretative dance performance regarding the removal of Roy Moore's 10 Commandments monument from an Alabama courthouse. Apparently, Goldberg intends this to be menacing, but it's hard to be frightened by any group that communicates its message through dance. Goldberg draws explicit parallels between today's Christians and the Nazis of 1920s Germany, which only makes the whole thing more ridiculous: my own, admittedly non-intensive, study of the Third Reich has convinced me that ballet was generally low on the list of Stormtroopers' tactics.
This and other delights from
The Medicine Box. Thanks to Eliot at
Claw of the Conciliator for pointing it out.
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