Nice job of cherry picking there. "Mainline" doesn't include the growing numbers of Evangelical Christians.
"By the end of the 20th century there were nearly 100 million Americans who identified themselves as "Evangelical Christians," according to a Gallup Poll in 1995."
They don't.
Mainline originally referred to the churches patronized by the wealthy people who lived out along the Main Line ~ a railroad that headed into Philadelphia in the early day.
A "mainstream" church actually doesn't have much cachet ~ you get outside the Roman Catholic church, which is the biggest Christian institution of any kind, all the others are quite small.
The RCC is the only MSM Christian church when you get right down to it.
So, what term do we want to use so that we don't needlessly confuse or insult our fellow Christians?
One radio host who has been popular on and off for years uses "Within the Pale of Christian Orthodoxy" ~ and that brings in just about everybody but not the Unitarians, Universalists, Mormons, one branch of Pentecostalism, and some other minor quasi-Christian offshoots.
I simply use "Christian" and you pick the meaning to see if it fits you. Best to avoid "Mainstream" and "Mainline" even if the particular usage is correct!
They don't.
Mainline originally referred to the churches patronized by the wealthy people who lived out along the Main Line ~ a railroad that headed into Philadelphia in the early day.
A "mainstream" church actually doesn't have much cachet ~ you get outside the Roman Catholic church, which is the biggest Christian institution of any kind, all the others are quite small.
The RCC is the only MSM Christian church when you get right down to it.
So, what term do we want to use so that we don't needlessly confuse or insult our fellow Christians?
One radio host who has been popular on and off for years uses "Within the Pale of Christian Orthodoxy" ~ and that brings in just about everybody but not the Unitarians, Universalists, Mormons, one branch of Pentecostalism, and some other minor quasi-Christian offshoots.
I simply use "Christian" and you pick the meaning to see if it fits you. Best to avoid "Mainstream" and "Mainline" even if the particular usage is correct!
“Mainline” doesn’t include the growing numbers of Evangelical Christians.
I thought it went without saying that Evangelical Churches were NOT part of the mainline churches. I am a Evangelical Christian.
However the so called Evangelical Churches that come from a liberal Democrat point of view I have no use for, they still support abortion/homosexuality and the removal of Christ from classroom/public square and are clearly NOT Christian.
Anybody that votes Democrat, supports the evils of the Liberal Supreme Court, they can NOT have it both ways
There are some “phony evangelicals” that support Obama