State of Evangelicalism

[Dave Roberts]

One of my friends pointed me to a lengthy article from Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. This Wheaton grad gives us a lot to consider.

[Sandy]

[Dave Roberts]

[KeithE]

[William Thornton]

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion ... nald-trump

The mysterious, monolithic, mythical evangelical. Expand your reading bro.

[Dave Roberts]

[KeithE]

[Dave Roberts]

William, I hope you have read "The End of White Christian America" which sheds a lot of light on the response of many white evangelical groups who can read the demographics and know we will soon be just one of many minorities among the American populace, a fact brought on as much by the shrinking white birth rate as by the challenging of Christianity. No wonder Al Mohler was advocating the "full quiver" theology a few years ago, until he was personally challenged for only having two children himself. We are in a new world, Bro, and we had better learn how to relate to this world and join forces with African-American and Hispanic Christian groups. I am on Jorge Zapta's facebook list of friends, and the expansion of Baptists and other Christians in the Rio Grande Valley is one rapidly changing the dynamics even of Baptists in Texas.

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[Sandy]

The getreligion piece is an interesting perspective, though I notice many assertions without a lot of support. Upwards of 81% of white Evangelicals who voted supported Trump, but the white Evangelical vote was down, by right at 10%, in 2016. The small shift of blue collar workers who moved to Trump in 2016 was countered by suburban, college educated women who moved to Hillary. He couldn't have won without white Evangelical support, and that support justifies the criticism of their sincerity and credibility. In every way.

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[Dave Roberts]

[Sandy]

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[Sandy]

[Rvaughn]

[Sandy]

[Dave Roberts]

[William Thornton]

I have never known ANYONE who has the slightest interest in or appreciation of Bakker. Waste of time to bring that charlatan up here.

[Dave Roberts]

[JE Pettibone]

Ed: Uh Sandy; The Senate is a part of one of the three branches of American Government, The Legislative. The other two parts are the Executive and the Judaical.

[Sandy]

[Sandy]