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Great Article
November 15, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Busy day but I had to pop in and post this one.
http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/politi...--20121113
Quote:Ever since Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, evangelicals have been a powerful political force. Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority organization were credited in part with Reagan's election, having registered millions of evangelicals to vote. Their influence would only grow over the next 25 years: Evangelicals were instrumental in Reagan's reelection, the Republican Revolution of 1994, and both of George W. Bush's victories. But on Nov. 6, 2012. their reign came to an end.
"I think this [election] was an evangelical disaster," Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Quote:Second, evangelicals' influence is waning. Conservative Christian ideas are failing to shape the broader culture. More than 3,500 churches close their doors every year, and while Americans are still overwhelmingly spiritual, the institutional church no longer holds the sway over their lives it once did. The sweeping impact of globalization and the digital age has marginalized the church and its leaders.
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RE: Great Article
November 15, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Quote: The evangelical vote was 27 percent of the overall electorate -- the highest it's ever been for an election.
So much for the theory that Obama was reelected because christians stayed home.
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RE: Great Article
November 15, 2012 at 7:24 pm
(November 15, 2012 at 3:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "The sweeping impact of globalization and the digital age has marginalized the church and its leaders."
Did it also marginalize xenophobia and homophobia ?
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RE: Great Article
November 15, 2012 at 11:17 pm
(November 15, 2012 at 3:58 pm)cato123 Wrote: Quote: The evangelical vote was 27 percent of the overall electorate -- the highest it's ever been for an election.
So much for the theory that Obama was reelected because christians stayed home.
That would better explain why Romney did not win.
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RE: Great Article
November 16, 2012 at 2:51 am
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(November 15, 2012 at 3:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Busy day but I had to pop in and post this one.
http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/politi...--20121113
Conservative Christian ideas are failing to shape the broader culture. More than 3,500 churches close their doors every year...
I wish that damn disease would die out in my lifetime. Alas, I must console myself with the fact that I'm doing my part now to help kill off christianity in the future.
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RE: Great Article
November 16, 2012 at 1:37 pm
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(November 15, 2012 at 11:17 pm)Polaris Wrote: That would better explain why Romney did not win.
Why would christians vote for some crazy ass motherfucker who worships [a different] imaginary god. Rgr?
Strangely, they do seem to have voted for him.....there just weren't enough of them.....
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RE: Great Article
November 16, 2012 at 2:10 pm
The point is that they DID turn out to support Romney - mormon or not - and still got their clock cleaned. The "disaster" is not that they didn't support him but that they did and lost.
Quote:As a result, 79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Romney on Tuesday. That's the same percentage that Bush received in 2004, and more than Sen. John McCain received in 2008. The evangelical vote was 27 percent of the overall electorate -- the highest it's ever been for an election.
Their support wasn't enough. Not only did President Obama win soundly, but four states voted to allow same-sex marriage.
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