Posted on May 18, 2022
The 'heartbreaking' political rift within evangelicalism
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In his article "How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church", Tim Alberta writes that he's spent his life "watching evangelicalism morph from a spiritual disposition into a political identity. It's heartbreaking."
Alberta, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks with host Anthony Brooks about how right-wing politics is creating divisions inside the evangelical church and what that means for culture and politics outside the church.
Alberta, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks with host Anthony Brooks about how right-wing politics is creating divisions inside the evangelical church and what that means for culture and politics outside the church.
The 'heartbreaking' political rift within evangelicalism
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We need to push religion further and further away from politics. I don't want anybody's god influencing laws and rights in this country.
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Why? Hillary lost because she ignored rural white working America . Evangelicals oppose her because she favored abortion, gay marriage, socialism etc. There have always been those who use the pulpit as a place of personal aggrandizement, you would know this if you read your Bible. I personally think it was unconstitutional of the government to shut down churches. There is always a war in Churches,bowing to the spirit of the age or the truth of God’s word. It is interesting how liberals trash Christians then at election time they rush out to tell you how your faith is wrong because some left wing pastor believes such and such and if you follow the Bible you are in error because of bla bla bla.
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LTC David Brown
LTC (Join to see) - not really, these church’s are mainly independent, traditional denominations are in decline. There is no set dogma that defines evangelical Church’s.
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MSgt Michael Bischoff
But they sold their souls to a clown that uses a Bible as a prop while beating his opposition back.
I don’t remember Jesus ever doing that (of course no Bible).
I don’t remember Jesus ever doing that (of course no Bible).
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Interview Highlights
On the rise of Bill Bolin’s church, FloodGate Church, during the pandemic
“Despite having grown up in that town and despite being the son of a pastor in that town and knowing just about everybody at all the churches in that town, I'd actually never heard of FloodGate. It was a very small church. And a couple of years ago, at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the pastor there, Bill Bolin, essentially made a calculation that he was not going to shut down his church in compliance with state orders. And in so doing, he became a small-time celebrity in the local evangelical scene. The church, which had a weekly attendance of somewhere around 100, started seeing several hundred. And today, the church is pushing towards 2,000 people on an average Sunday. ... It's a place where there has been an effortless alliance between political conservatism — in many cases, sort of far right, Republican ideology — and conservative biblical theology. And that has produced quite a windfall financially. In addition to the massive numbers of new people attending the church.”...
..."Interview Highlights
On the rise of Bill Bolin’s church, FloodGate Church, during the pandemic
“Despite having grown up in that town and despite being the son of a pastor in that town and knowing just about everybody at all the churches in that town, I'd actually never heard of FloodGate. It was a very small church. And a couple of years ago, at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the pastor there, Bill Bolin, essentially made a calculation that he was not going to shut down his church in compliance with state orders. And in so doing, he became a small-time celebrity in the local evangelical scene. The church, which had a weekly attendance of somewhere around 100, started seeing several hundred. And today, the church is pushing towards 2,000 people on an average Sunday. ... It's a place where there has been an effortless alliance between political conservatism — in many cases, sort of far right, Republican ideology — and conservative biblical theology. And that has produced quite a windfall financially. In addition to the massive numbers of new people attending the church.”...
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