[Craic] Re Evangelicals

[David Walsh]

This article has interesting points about 'Evangelicals'.-- re our discussion last Saturday. I expect one could write a similar piece on the over 50% of Catholic who supported Trump.

Evangelicals | Comment Magazine (cardus.ca)<https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/evangelicals/>
by Peter Wehner<https://www.cardus.ca/comment/browse/contributor/pwehner>

"The crisis facing American evangelicalism goes much deeper than Donald Trump and the Trump presidency. Mr. Trump didn't appear ex nihilo; he took advantage of the opening he was presented. If during the Republican primary in 2016 evangelicals hadn't rallied in such large numbers to support Trump when every other candidate was far more deserving of their support, at least based on any previous metric evangelical Christians said mattered to them, Trump would never have won the nomination."

In her book From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity<https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Pews-Partisanship-Political-Environment/dp/022655578X>, Michele Margolis of the University of Pennsylvania shows how it's not simply our religious beliefs that shape our politics, but our politics that shape our religious choices. It turns out partisan identity can have an overpowering and pernicious effect.


David



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