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It’s hard to know which is worse: that candidates think that talking about religion will make evangelical Christians forget why they care about politics—or that they might be right.

I think it's sad, but I believe many evangelical Christians don't care. Being a part of the evangelical camp myself, I've got an up front view of it. And even the ones who do care, don't understand why they care on any issue outside of pro-life issues. Unfortunately, I find that evangelical Christians are dangerously comfortable with government solutions to social problems. That's the exact opposite of what's supposed to happen. The Founding Fathers themselves believed that social ills were beyond the capacity of government to deal with and should be left in the hands of the experts: the church.

On the flip side, there are important issues that evangelical Christians don't seem to care about. 2nd Amendment issues are a good example here. The feminization of the modern church in America has, to a large degree, put this issue by the way side among evangelicals. I wish I could make people understand that the persecution of the church cannot happen in earnest while the people are able to defend themselves. I view the issue as having co-equal importance with pro-life issues. Outlawing abortion and euthanasia preserves lives and is the right thing to do. Allowing the people to keep and bear their arms also saves lives.

I'm also concerned by the fact that evangelicals in general are completely unaware of our American heritage or how our system of government is supposed to work.

Very well said, my friend. I know we are talking about the evangelical Christians here but the problem is much broader than the feminization of the church. It is also the feminization of a large numbers of American men, Christians or not, and the surrender of the leadership role that God ordained for them. I hope I don’t offend anyone but the term I use is “the p*ssification of the American male.”