{"id":3399,"date":"2016-03-10T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:25:09","slug":"subdividing-evangelicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"Subdividing evangelicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/10\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/donald-trumps-christian-soldiers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Douthat<\/a> joins the &#8220;Trumpers are not r-e-e-e-a-l Christians&#8221; brigade.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first fault line is the one suggested by the data on churchgoing: Trump is losing the most active believers, but he\u2019s winning in what I\u2019ve previously termed <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the \u201cChristian penumbra\u201d<\/span> \u2014 the areas of American society (<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">parts of the South very much included<\/span>) where active religiosity has weakened, but <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">a Christian-ish residue remains<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The inhabitants of this penumbra still identify with Christianity, but <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">they lack the communities, habits and support structures<\/span> that make the religious path (somewhat) easier to walk. As a result, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">this Christian-ish landscape seems to produce more social dysfunction, more professional disappointment and more personal disarray<\/span> than either a thoroughgoing secularism or a fully practiced faith \u2014 which makes it ripe territory for Trump\u2019s populist appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gimme a break.  We&#8217;re talking about the exact same people that evangelical leaders have been using to bludgeon our politics for the past 3-decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Douthat joins the &#8220;Trumpers are not r-e-e-e-a-l Christians&#8221; brigade. The first fault line is the one suggested by the data on churchgoing: Trump is losing the most active believers, but he\u2019s winning in what I\u2019ve previously termed the \u201cChristian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}