http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/05/01/evangelicals-support-romney/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 16 May 2013 19:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/05/01/evangelicals-support-romney/comment-page-1/#comment-86069 Tomer Persico Thu, 03 May 2012 12:40:34 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=32275#comment-86069 It’s interesting to note that while the evangelicals are willing to embrace Romney in spite of his religious “metaphysics” and just because he shares their ethical worldview, they will see mainline Protestants as “”phony” mainly because they are subscribed to a liberal moral worldview. On the one hand they will accuse liberal Protestants of betraying “real” Christianity for the comfort of progressive liberal morality; on the other hand they have no problem forgetting about Christian dogma in return for the comfort of Romney’s conservative morality. Apart from the possible hypocrisy here, it is interesting to see that in both cases it seems that moral values are superseding, or at least seen to be superseding, religious dogmatics. And this is at a time that religion is supposed to be surging.

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