During the rise of the Religious Right Movement in the 1960’s, the term “Evangelical” was quite literally hijacked by men like Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell to represent a radical political agenda whose mission was to “bring America back to Christ” which, on some level, really just meant bringing America back to a Fundamentalist dominated, far right political persuasion. A little later, many reacted to this hijacking of Evangelicalism by applying to leftist social causes and concerns, though this end of the movement never has gained much traction. Amidst all of this mudslinging and misguided politics done in the name of Jesus, Evangelicals went from being “people of the Good News” to “people of Fox News”.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:55:56 +0000
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