Anyone familiar with evangelicals has known this for ten years.

Yeah, in America evangelicals have rigid views on things like abortion and homosexuality. At the same time they were the backbone of homeless shelters and refugee ministries. The Southern Baptist Convention ran the second largest disaster response organization in the United States. The guys caught up in Christian nationalism were not around for any of that. If they went to church at all it was to meet chicks.

There is no revival of Christianity in America or the West generally. It was already in decline and had been for a generation or more when Trump stepped out in 2015. Whatever credibility evangelicals had earned from actually helping people has been vaporized. They’re tied to him now in the public opinion because a lot of them voted for him.

A few evangelical leaders did try to speak out but were quickly pushed aside.

I’m an American living in Central Europe. I make less money here than I did in the States. I have a lot more money than I did in the States.

Voer eenden geen brood, gaarvan gaan ze dood.

Modern European buildings are handicapped accessible. What they don’t do is tear down old buildings for the benefit of a few disabled people. Or make it so expensive to reuse old buildings that they fall into neglect. Before you go there, I do have a disability but not a mobility problem.

“ Countries with high exports don’t have a great quality of life”

TIL Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway have a low standard of living.

Thank you. I feel the same way. I walk or use mass transit for 80-90% of my trips. I dislike bicycles. They have their place. Their place is not pedestrian streets in historic districts.

This is varies a lot by country.

I have experience in this. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled on it. If it’s open comment time, they cannot censor except for obscene or threatening speech. All they can do is set a time limit. Don’t cuss or make violent threats and you’re good. If they censor you it’s an open and shut civil rights case.

If it’s a public hearing for a specific matter, they can restrict comment to that topic.

A city council in the U.S. does not have to allow a general public comment time. Perhaps there are some states where it is required.

They can also allow public comment only as part of a hearing on a specific matter. Most states require this.

HOWEVER, if they allow an open public comment they cannot censor it.

I have no recent experience with Southern Baptists but twenty years ago the rule was, women cannot teach the Bible to men. It wasn’t common but it was tolerable for women to be a music leader. Women could teach and counsel other women. Women could teach children. Women could teach men anything that was not the Bible or derived from it. If the church had a food pantry or a crisis pregnancy center, women could run it and give orders to men who worked there, except on any matter touching religious doctrine.

8/10 towns above 10k population in West Virginia are like Wheeling.