Conversely, many secular people in the media and elsewhere tend to regard religious people and religion as the adversary in the ongoing culture wars -- and tend to demonize them in turn.
Incidentally, in the opening part of the book of Job, the Adversary in God's court is also known as Satan. Satan is not portrayed there as God's adversary, but as playing the role of the adversary in God's court. So whenever we demonize our real or imagined adversaries, we can look to the book of Job for an example of this way of thinking about the adversary.
As I say, the mottoes of GQ are "Look Sharp" and "Live Smart." So I guess that Magary and the editors of GQ figure they will help their readers live smart by bringing them up to speed about Phil Robertson's unexpurgated views. However, I figure that the way to live smart is to challenge his views.
DIGRESSION: For a perceptive look at the spirit of American exceptionalism, see Stephen Kinzer's book The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War (2013). END OF DIGRESSION.
POSTSCRIPT: ONG'S LONG VIEW OF WESTERN CULTURE
As a postscript I'd like to point out here that the American cultural historian and theorist Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003), suggested that we in Western culture today are undergoing a deep shift in our cultural conditioning.
The people in what is now considered to be Western culture started off in primary oral culture, as did all people. Primary oral culture was preliterate culture. According to Ong, primary oral thought and expression manifests the world-as-event sense of life.
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