Evangelical Adaptations

NOTE: I'm posting this article not to condone, but to provoke thought. Post your comments below.

Since over one-fourth of U.S. citizens are listed in the demographic or sociological category "Evangelicals," we should spend at least one-fourth of our energies sighting accounts of them in the secular media, our chief zone of operations and spying. Recent treatments stress some significant changes within the camp, changes which fair-minded observers should note before they generalize and stereotype.

Dr. David Instone-Brewer, an evangelical scholar who has written at book length on the subject, in the Wall Street Journal discusses reasons why evangelicals, who once spoke with horror and judgment against divorce and the divorced, are now blithely settling for possible presidential candidates who have divorced repeatedly. Why the change? Frankly, because "the divorce rate among evangelicals is actually as high as that of the general population." In short, M.E.M. observes, "Everybody's doing it, so why preach against it?" On such terms, many in this camp long ago gave up supporting "Sunday closing" laws and other instruments that helped keep them from violating one of the commandments. Opposition to alcohol, which once led them to total support for tee-totaling, has softened now. Et cetera.

Read more of this story on The Christian Post.