(December 18, 2018 at 10:34 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The increased Evangelical participation in politics carried the seeds of its eventual decline. When I was a Pentecostal kid, politics was widely viewed as too 'worldly' for someone truly concerned about saving souls to get too mixed up in, and our leaders are appointed by God anyway, who are we to intervene in God's plans? Things literally can't turn out any other way than what God ordained.
The inevitable result is that evangelicals have corrupted politics and politics has corrupted evangelicals. The hypocrisy required to endorse Trump because he will give you the judges you want is not lost on the (mainly) youth leaving the church. The median age of Evangelicals went from 46 in 2007 to 49 in 2014. The median age for Americans in 2017 was 38, up from 37.2 in 2010.
Prior to Jerry Fartwell, and the "moral majority" back in the 60s and 70s whom went onto get evangelicals to hijack Reagan and the GOP, most religious people made more of an effort to keep religion and politics separate.
