Look at post 24, do you really think that Evangelicals are the weak link in Christian voting? Compared to what?
re: “Look at post 24, do you really think that Evangelicals are the weak link in Christian voting? Compared to what?”
No, I do not consider evangelicals as necessarily a “weak link” in voting conservative - I wasn’t even addressing that. Further, I don’t think overall that evangelicals are going to vote en masse for Obama.
But, I do see problems for conservatism in the evangelical movement. And, I was giving an explanation about why this pastor Beard, and some other evangelicals I’ve met and talked with, could confuse Christian ethics with some aspects of “progressivism” (or what used to be called the “social” gospel) because a general lack of interest in knowing Christian doctrine (the What we believe and Why).
I’ve seen this attitude on the part of many evangelical churches in the “contemporary” movement (such as Saddleback Church, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, etc.). Learning doctrine isn’t “exciting”. It’s not “fun”. You have to work at it, and, let’s face it, some segments of evangelical Christianity are plain lazy in regard to knowing what they believe and why. In the same way, many of these don’t know political ideology very well either or how Christianity relates to the beliefs of the two major political partys.
The greater concern I have regarding evangelicals is that a large percentage won’t vote at all because they consider politics as “of the world” or “God’s-in-control-and He’s-gonna-work-it-all-out-as-He-see’s-fit-anyway” so why should I vote? Others think politics is too “divisive” and too “judgmental” and try to ignore the political debates and controversys - they see it all as “evil”, even both partys as equally bad.
That’s the thing I fear the most. But, with Obama supporting same-sex marriage (along with all the other left wing stuff), that might be enough to rejuvinate the evangelical voting bloc to be more motivated to get out and vote.