The Rise and Decline of the Evangelical Left

Evangelicals remerged from the depths with the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976 bringing the religion keystone into the political world after warfareds a dying come come in of the closet in the 1920s. Until the 1970s evangelistics were non a large element in the political scene, a political scientist Lyman A. Kellsetdts data proved that evangelicals were less likely to be involved in campaign activities than other religious groups.1Carl enthalpy is considered the architect of neo-evangelism for carrying evangelicalism to the forefront of government activity in the 1970s. When the Vietnam war started to force headlines Carl Henry spoke start with a pro war standpoint. However, Jim Wallis, another evangelical activist, took the level and took Henrys argument and ran the other modal value saying American exponentiation in this war is wrong. earth-closet Alexander was also an evangelical figurehead. Alexanders actions towards racial rightness were similar to the evangelic als bewitchs and actions, very inconsistent. The political view on racial justice of the evangelicals is one of their downfalls. M any believed in justice and spoke out against segregation, but hesitated to take any major action against things such as the Jim Crow laws.\nThis seemed to be a reoccurring problem with many an(prenominal) political issues for the evangelicals because the Bible gives them no party platform to follow. Since the lines on issues such as rush along and war were blurred and leading divided within the group, evangelicals had no political identifier. Choosing to support racial justice and opposing the war slid them under the Democratic platform. simply with the Catholic church fashioning a stance for pro tone the evangelicals saw their maturement movement and wanted to copy that power. So the evangelicals hopped on gameboard with signs screaming Choose Life: All Life is Sacred. The Democrats as yet were Pro Choice on this platform leaving the evang elicals marooned now somewhere in the middle of the two parties. slowdown the Republican party star...