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Concerned about the rightwing stereotypes linked to the term, many say they no longer identify with it especially after the 2016 election
Josiah Hesse
Friday 3 November 2017 03.01 EDT
I dont identify myself with that term any more, Boz Tchividjian said recently. He was talking about being evangelical, the movement his grandfather, the Rev Billy Graham, helped popularize in America. Words matter, Tchividjian said, and evangelical isnt like Baptist or Episcopalian, which can be clearly defined. The minute you use that term to someone,, youre defined by how they interpret it.
Tchividjian is among a growing number of religious people and groups in America who have stopped identifying as evangelicals in order to distance themselves from the more extreme elements of Christian society, while remaining true to their principles.
This fall, the 80-year-old Princeton Evangelical Fellowship dropped evangelical from its name. William Boyce, executive secretary of what is now the Princeton Christian Fellowship, explained the move, saying: In recent years
we are seeing that more students either do not recognize or they misunderstand the term evangelical.
And in a recent interview, Tony Campolo, a pastor and founder of the Red Letter Christians movement, said succinctly what others have also said publicly: We feel uncomfortable calling ourselves evangelicals any more, because the general public assumes things about us that arent true. We are not for capital punishment, we are not pro-war, we dont hate gays, were not anti-feminist.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/03/evangelical-christians-religion-politics-trump
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Evangelicals should burn in hell.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Is synonymous with fanatically insane; out of sync with reality and intentionally ignorant.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,009 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)and 80% nationally.
They deserve the Trump label
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)suggested on another thread? Religious bigotry is deplorables behavior anywhere, but if it's going to be indulged here it should be taken to that subforum created for this kind of indulgence.
So some evangelicals are embarrassed. Good. But let's hope many are reconnecting their religion to their politics, not just changing labels.
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Mosby
(16,318 posts)Who is moderately liberal, except with social issues like abortion and gay marriage.
Whether he likes it or not he knows damn well that most "evangelical" xtians are right wingers, they just love that salvation bullshit.