Bizarre. The only white evangelicals I know aren’t that crazy…
I’ll be interested to see how Evangelical Christian political alignment fares in the decades to come. Fivethirtyeight recently (a couple months ago) highlighted the changing demographics of Evangelical groups, in that the fastest growing demographic is 18-24 year old Hispanics, while the share of white males/females in dropping sharply.
Will the growing portion of their adherents who belong to a traditionally somewhat more liberal demographic affect the overall political alignment, or will the staunch hyperconservative politics of the current Evangelical leaders eventually push out this demographic over time? Given the current state of race and immigration politics, I’d guess the latter.
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Almost certainly poorly.
I’ve known genuinely evangelical white people who believe in the literal word of the Bible, which means they believed in the good, kind, selfless, generous parts of Christianity (as well as a whole bunch of crazy things that would happen during the rapture).
Unfortunately, most of the people who’ve embraced the term these days trumpet the prosperity gospel and are focused on hatred as a tool for advancing the rapture.
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Because if it makes homosexuals and socialists and minorities angry, it must be what god wants.
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sunk cost fallacy? Stockholme syndrome?
There’s a name for this, but I can’t remember.
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“How can we be sure that anybody living in Stockholm actually wanted to live there?”
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Peak Stupidity: Are we there yet?
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FTFY. Anything resembling integrity is jointly held bigotry among their ‘peers’.
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Poe’s Law strikes again!
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Ironically, the Rapture as generally thought about is nowhere near “the literal word of the Bible”.
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If you collect enough tokens they do a great deal on jack-boots…
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With a slight emendation:
White evangelicals who are replying to a poll about support for Donald Trump is at an all-time high.
That is, the percentage of “white evangelicals”, hell evangelicals of any shade, who supported trump will remain fixed as to how they currently state their support… of trump (you wouldn’t really expect a lot of progressing thought in this group, would you?). The only thing which shifts is whether their opinion can be trivially recorded.
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A very thoughtful 1st post, which is not something that happens all the time - Welcome to BoingBoing!
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The only statistic that really matters. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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One is a medical doctor, and the other used to be a missionary and now works in insurance and writes poetry in his spare time. They are both nerdy, though my ex has had debates about Sola Scriptora before.
I’m very thankful for this, actually. It’s proof positive that “White Evangelical Christianity” has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with being a bigot.
Also any time one of these assholes starts bloviating about “sexual morality,” we know that’s not what they actually give a shit about, because they’ve proven that, too. (It’s about controlling women.) I think about how the traditional evangelical view was both vehemently anti-abortion and anti-contraception; the justification was that they may have seen contraception as the lesser evil, but they weren’t going to morally compromise. Now they’ve supported Trump and Moore, acknowledging that they’re, er, extremely problematic people, using the justification that some moral compromises were necessary when it came to ending abortion, because it was such an important issue.
They can’t hide any more. They’ve been fully and completely revealed for what they are - nothing more than reactionary bigots with an extreme need to control women. We don’t even have to pretend “morality” comes into it for them.
They had that right - the big mistake most Americans made was thinking that “Christian” was in that description, somewhere. Now they should know better.
I find it hilarious that the group of Americans constantly, fearfully obsessing over the prophesied coming of the “Anti-Christ” was so eager to line up and follow him.
That’s happened with the Republican party (which is why they’re so happy with him - most of those who weren’t, left). In this case, the process has been going on for a while, such that Trump was the perfect representative for those who remained in this group.
Though, honestly, that’s probably unfair to Mammon and Moloch.
That implies a height rather than a depth. The problem with depths is you can always dig deeper…
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Emphasis added not so much to indicate the addition, but to indicate importance.
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“There’s nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and enthusiastic stupidity” Martin Luther King
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