What Does Evangelical Mean?
“Evangelicals” have some particularly interesting perceptual correlates … blindness to violence towards animals and people. And we’re the ones taking the good news to the rest of the world. I love it. But seriously, how is that Good News? In response to a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Andrew Sullivan comments …
So Christian devotion correlates with approval for absolute evil in America. And people wonder why atheism is gaining in this country. Notice the poll does not even use a euphemism like “coercive interrogation” – forcing Allahpundit to substitute it. (Even HotAir, it seems, finds it difficult to write the sentence: “Evangelicals are more likely to be conservative and conservatives are more likely to support torture.”) But it remains a fact that white evangelicals are the most pro-torture of any grouping. ~ via The Daily Dish
Imago Dei or Imago Diabolus? If Evangelical means wanting to get more people to know the love of Jesus, the light of the world, then I’m Evangelical. If it means knowingly and openly supporting, condoning, and ignoring violence when there are other options then, not so much.
