RE: Evangelicals in decline.
December 18, 2018 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2018 at 12:25 pm by Brian37.)
(December 18, 2018 at 9:59 am)Jehanne Wrote:Quote:GOP Has a Looming Evangelical Problem, Too
It's not just women, particularly suburban women, who may not be powering the Republican Party to victories any more (see above). Evangelicals, a critical component of the GOP coalition for close to half a century, are in serious decline as a political force.
Part of the reason is that the electorate as a whole is changing, and non-evangelical groups are growing in numbers. When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, roughly 85% of the electorate was white and Christian. By the time Bill Clinton ran in 1992, it was down to 73%. And in 2012, it had dropped again to 53%. If current trendlines hold, 2024 will be the first election in U.S. history where white, Christian voters are in the minority.
GOP Has a Looming Evangelical Problem, Too
This is no different in human history.
There was a time when the majority of Egyptians believed in Ra, the Sun God.
(December 18, 2018 at 12:13 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: If somebody caused the foreign policy of the U.S to be so hostile and vicious towards Muslims in the Middle East, it is the Evangelical wing in the U.S .
Aside from injecting zionism with huge doses in American foreign policy -since supporting Israel is supporting the land where Christ would return to from heaven-; Evangelicals also made it much much harder for Muslims to communicate with the Christian white American.
They -along with backward extreme Islamists- created a huge gap between your average American -no; I mean white Christian- and Muslims.
I'm not familiar with any other gaps they caused between white Americans and foreigners, but I can bet that if you saw a single crack in the wall, there so many others.
They will die out, the only thing that is keeping them alive is their importance as strategic pawns; they worth gold when a war like the Iraq war of 2003 breaks out, but soon -as with most pawns- they die from old age.
How about the better option for all humans to consider? There is no god, religions are all human inventions.
As much as every religion worldwide claims to have the secrets to peace, it causes more conflict than it brings peace. Every nation in the world has hospitals and prisons, and that tells me everything I need to know about our species morality. Our morality is in us, not old writings or holy people, but our evolution.
