Farewell, Evangelicals

By most accounts, evangelicalism began with the influence of the Great Awakenings of the 18th century, which provided a set of social norms and values that has shaped much of American life and public policy for nearly three centuries. But those days may be over.

The 2012 Republican Party platform, which embraced many of those norms and values, was clearly rejected by more than half of the American electorate. I am no futurist, and I am open to being wrong, but to me it appears that evangelical influence in American political and cultural life is quickly coming to a close. In fact, before too long, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the Republican Party begin to distance itself from conservative evangelical Christians.

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