The only worse thing would be not building new housing in desirable areas, which would guarantee that only the wealthiest will buy up everything already there.

People are responding to Mamdani's desire to make it easier to build housing with "but... that sounds like Abundance." Yes, we actually do need more abundant housing given that there's a catastrophic shortage of housing. That's how numbers work.

He's a convert to Catholicism at this point!

I mean, yes, developers target desirable areas with housing that people can afford in those areas. I'm not sure what else anyone could expect.

Is clarification an important thing to do, even in the face of emboldened fascism? Maybe not. I genuinely don't know, but I am inclined in that direction.

One issue is that your definition (and that of Anabaptism-inspired critics I've met) differs from the way the vast majority of people now use it to specify a coherent movement of *right-wing* Christians. That's fine, but it also means that journalists picking up the term would confuse things more.

The contrast with Hindu nationalism is instructive: the whole Hindutva ideology revolves around the marginalization and expulsion of non-Hindus. So-called Christian nationalists (with some exceptions) hold quite a few views as more politically important than Christian supremacy over other religions.

Part of the issue is that saying that Christian nationalism is explanatory implies that religion is driving the politics when it's largely the other way around: mostly, the politics is shaping the religion (not that they cam be untangled, of course).

Not gonna be using hot pizza ovens as much in a warm climate, I guess. Also, aside from New Orleans, there hardly *were* any major cities in the southern US until fairly recently.

It's incredibly sad, but the evidence is strong that churches of any kind can't be trusted to handle abusers, and these situations have to be turned over to the state for even a chance of something like justice being done and future abuse being prevented.

When something makes you think "I can't believe they would be so obviously wicked," take a minute and make sure that the evidence is actually there. Sometimes it is! In other cases, maybe not.

The fact that they actually *are* currently targeting churches and religious leaders makes it more, not less, important to stick to credible information about what is happening.

It's possible that the author did really extensive work and just isn't accustomed to how journalists typically write (the non sequitur paragraph about Franklin Graham really sticks out) and has gotten ahold of a truly odd story, but let's wait and see.

It just doesn't seem likely that individual pastors in one of the SBC's most far-flung areas are getting detailed information on these meetings and then getting connected to a random outlet that also happens to have these DOJ sources and connections to "[m]ultiple prominent Protestant leaders."

Like this is possible, but... "Two Hispanic pastors who lead Southern Baptist churches in New England say that SBC President Clint Pressley and its executive board received briefings on the plan and discussed it with Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller and White House Border Czar Tom Homan."