Robert Reich's War on Evangelicals

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | December 8, 2003 | Don Feder

[Sam Cree]

"Standing up for the Gospel is very different from grandstanding on one's own authority."

I like the way you put that.

[cookcounty]

" But I am interested that you don't consider TV preachers to be evangelical, that gives me a slightly better impression of them. What about Pat Robertson, for instance? I have seen his face on TV."

TV preachers are to evangelicals as jenny Jones and What's his (you know Mr. Cincinatti) is to your friends and neighbors. I'm very involved with lots of Evangelicals. I don't know of any who watch TV preachers. They are, for the most part, not very representative of the movement as a whole, though Robertson and Falwell have a significant following. If you recall, Robertson dropped out of the running for prez because of his lack of traction with evengelical voters. Like anything else these days, it's the odd and noisy that get the attention.

[cookcounty]

"Let's put it this way: I consider C.S. Lewis, Philip Yancey, R.C. Sproul and James I. Packer to be much more credible spokesmen for Biblical Christianity than the Bakkers, Rod Parsley or Jimmy Swaggart."

Here, here. I have many friends that have read these authors, but not many who ever watch TV preachers.

[SerpentDove]

Religion IS ALREADY taught in public schools.

The religion of tolerance, political correctness, and humanism.

[SerpentDove]

>>Armed with God's revealed, inerrant Word in a handy 66-volume tome, Evangelical Protestant Christians are a powerful agent for good, a force to be reckoned with, and a family to which I'm humbled and honored to belong! :)<<

Same here.

[randita]

It's more up to the legislators, I think. It's up to the voters to pick the right legislators.

Since our form of government is not a direct democracy, you are 100% correct. As Rush says often, "The voters always get what they want."