I thought his welfare and tax reform policies went in the right direction and that is policies on education were good. I especially liked that he turned from organized religion and the Southern Baptist Convention.
I am not sure I see your side of it yet. George Yancey teaches at Biola--a high Evangelical University and Steven Meyer is clearly an Evangelical.
But, its is about politics and not the gospel in this case. Is it really your view that Christians have no input into political matters? Maybe I misunderstand your point.
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No he didn’t turn from organized religion he just severed his membership with the SBC. In fact he is highly involved in a different Baptist church of a different association. Here’s a quick snip from his Wiki write up.
Technically you are correct about his joining another denomination, but I will refer you to his own comments on what he means by losing his religion.
I believe what he is referring to by ‘Loosing his religion’ is not only severing his membership with the Baptist association he knew for sixty years but by coming to that decision meant redefining his own beliefs which is more affirming to the roles of women not only pertaining to church but in relation between husband and wife. For years since leaving the SBC he’s been a deacon in his new Baptist congregation and taught Sunday school.
What is the right political decision if two people pray sincerely and come to different electoral choices?
I think these lines are more blurry nowadays. Evangelicals worked hard in the 70's-90's to clarify what was, and was not, Evangelical. I was part of a Reformed church which was also very clear that we were not Evangelical. Lutherans also seemed clear about that. Here is an interesting article by Johnathan Merritt which discusses the history of the categorical difficulty of labeling Evangelicals.
First off, you don't have to have religious convictions as an "unbeliever" to pass spiritual judgments. You only have to have a moral/immoral conviction of what's right and wrong according to treat others as you would want to be treated.
I am referring to spiritual things as non-material and supernatural; I just don't believe in those things. If spiritual is understood as strong human feeling and emotion--then I accept it. I think Jazz and roots music has spiritual elements. John Coltrane was spiritual for me.
