"The pendulum in the Christian world has swung back to the moderate point of view. The real battle now is among evangelicals."Fox was recently pressured to resign from his church for his political activism in the pulpit.
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The NYT piece is quite interesting, informative, and well researched on the whole.
I am encouraged by the broadening of the moral/religious issues in play for the Religious Right, and by the loosening of ties with a single political party.
I also think it is long since past time for the laity to hold their ministers to account for politicizing the gospel of Jesus, and put them out on the street.
But, I suspect that viewed from a longer historical perspective, what the author is describing is part of the surging and receeding of the Religious Right that has been going on for many decades in this country.
Similar patterns can be seen in other versions of religious fundamentalism (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu) over the centuries.
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