Some really interesting points here. One thing I found interesting during COVID was the number of Christians requesting religious exemptions to vaccine mandates from pastors who were pro-vaccine. They weren't looking to church leaders as authorities, it seems, but to the Internet. I wonder how many people who call themselves "Evangelical" now actually attend church.
Oh yeah, that's a great thing to add! So bizarre, yet also not? I was looking at a study recently that showed that mainline pastors are on average more politically liberal than their congregations, and I imagine the same is often true in evangelical churches...
Some really interesting points here. One thing I found interesting during COVID was the number of Christians requesting religious exemptions to vaccine mandates from pastors who were pro-vaccine. They weren't looking to church leaders as authorities, it seems, but to the Internet. I wonder how many people who call themselves "Evangelical" now actually attend church.
Oh yeah, that's a great thing to add! So bizarre, yet also not? I was looking at a study recently that showed that mainline pastors are on average more politically liberal than their congregations, and I imagine the same is often true in evangelical churches...