New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof put it this way: “Today, among urban Americans and Europeans, ‘evangelical Christian’ is sometimes a synonym for ‘rube.’ In liberal circles, evangelicals constitute one of the few groups that it’s safe to mock openly.”
In the country some call a “Christian” nation, Americans increasingly disapprove of evangelical Christianity. As an example, the Human Rights Campaign reports an approval rating of 42 percent for evangelicals, 11 percent lower than approval of the gay community.
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