White evangelicals will never dump Trump -- but those who leave the churches will

[applegrove]

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/14/white-evangelicals-will-never-dump-trump-but-those-who-leave-the-churches-will/

By Amanda Marcotte at Salon

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None of which should be take to mean there is no hope when it comes to young people raised in white evangelical families. But that hope shouldn't rest on the belief that they will transform their sexist, racist communities into ones that have more humanitarian — dare one say, more Christian — beliefs. Instead, the focus should be on those who grow up in these faiths and choose to leave them as their personal values become more progressive.

As I reported for Salon in May, research shows that the real trend is not in young white evangelicals who choose to stay in their churches but leave the Republican Party. Instead, the trend is young white evangelicals leaving the church altogether, and often leaving the GOP at the same time. Research shows a "backlash effect," in which the more the religious right gets involved in politics, the more younger congregants are likely to throw in the towel and leave both the church and conservative politics behind.



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[Girard442]

1. As the Evangelical movement shrinks it will get more extreme.

If you visit one of their churches in 2020, expect to find in every pew a portrait of Donald Trump, an AR-15, and a snake.

[OnDoutside]

2. That's a good point. We've seen the same in the Catholic Church. As the scandals and coverups

continued, a lot of moderate Catholics just stopped going to Mass, leaving hard right fundies (mostly lay persons) pushing a hard stance against "A la carte Catholics".