Here's the deal with evangelical people. They do a lot more in their lives than read the Bible and go to church. They have to live in the world.
The scramble for jobs, because their old job has been shipped to Mexico. They hate having to send their kids to crappy schools, or else incur a great deal of expense to enroll them in private schools if they can't homeschool. The pay the same taxes non-religious voters do, and they see how it has been wasted. They're ashamed of how veterans have been treated. They know their children are being saddled with enormous debt. They are hunters; they have guns to protect their families.
Evangelicals are not china dolls sitting on a shelf that are going to automatically be swayed because a candidate quotes scripture.
Good points. And, again, I think that is reflected in this CBS poll with Trump beating Cruz handily among “evangelicals.”
Those of us who are not evangelicals may get a skewed version of them right here on FR. Many of them here are constantly quoting the bible and spend a lot of time bashing religions that are not their own. It would do my heart proud to know they are a minority voice.
“Here’s the deal with evangelical people. They do a lot more in their lives than read the Bible and go to church. They have to live in the world.”
I’m glad to hear that. I respect them for their beliefs, and glad that they see that electing a president has implcations that go beyond their faith. Too often, I see posts here from self-described “religious”people who tell us that if they don’t get a candidate for whom to vote that subscribes to their beliefs, that they are going to stay home. They are the ones who gave the country Barak Obama, a competely godless man.