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Why are Christians so often politically conservative?
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<blockquote data-quote="ViaCrucis" data-source="post: 60058623" data-attributes="member: 293637"><p>The political marriage has been a slow process, but really came to fruition several decades ago. The advent of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, for example, represented and contributed greatly to the convergence of American conservative politics and Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism.</p><p></p><p>This was something which Evangelical leaders, such as Billy Graham, warned about.</p><p></p><p>"<em>I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.</em>"</p><p> Rev. Billy Graham, Parade, 1981</p><p></p><p>Of course, if we go back to the 19th century, we find that Christianity, in particular proto-Evangelicalism, was often on the other side, championing what was then considered progressive and liberal political agendas such as Woman's Suffrage, the Abolition of Slavery, decrying child labor abuses and being extremely active in urban environs championing the rights of laborers. The evangelist Charles Finney, a rogue Presbyterian clergyman who is credited with inventing the now familiar "Altar Call" at his revivals also founded the first university in America that accepted women as students. The author of the American Pledge of Allegiance was written by Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy, who was also a Christian Socialist who advocated the rights of the working poor and the bettering of working conditions in the American industry.</p><p></p><p>The current state of things, with a very powerful Christian Right acting as a stable of right-wing political machinations is a unique aspect of contemporary American culture, though definitely exported around the world as well. It is, also, far more a political situation than it is particularly religious or Christian.</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViaCrucis, post: 60058623, member: 293637"] The political marriage has been a slow process, but really came to fruition several decades ago. The advent of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, for example, represented and contributed greatly to the convergence of American conservative politics and Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism. This was something which Evangelical leaders, such as Billy Graham, warned about. "[I]I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.[/I]" Rev. Billy Graham, Parade, 1981 Of course, if we go back to the 19th century, we find that Christianity, in particular proto-Evangelicalism, was often on the other side, championing what was then considered progressive and liberal political agendas such as Woman's Suffrage, the Abolition of Slavery, decrying child labor abuses and being extremely active in urban environs championing the rights of laborers. The evangelist Charles Finney, a rogue Presbyterian clergyman who is credited with inventing the now familiar "Altar Call" at his revivals also founded the first university in America that accepted women as students. The author of the American Pledge of Allegiance was written by Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy, who was also a Christian Socialist who advocated the rights of the working poor and the bettering of working conditions in the American industry. The current state of things, with a very powerful Christian Right acting as a stable of right-wing political machinations is a unique aspect of contemporary American culture, though definitely exported around the world as well. It is, also, far more a political situation than it is particularly religious or Christian. -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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