[Craic] Re Evangelicals

[Greg Gillis]

Thank you David, a powerful indictment of the Christian right in the United
States, hopefully their credibility has been fully destroyed by this
self-serving idiocy!

Greg


On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:27 PM David Walsh via craic <
craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> 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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