Are We Witnessing the End of the Religious Right?
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by catalyst into the Uncategorized, Other Blogs categoryTed Haggard thinks so. This is from his twitter feed.
- I believe we are at the end of what church historians will, in the future, call the Billy Graham era.
- I believe we are also nearing the end of the "Religious Right" representing Evangelicalism.
- My prayer is that over the next 10 years, there will be a Love Reformation and the Gospel will retake the Bible-believing church.
Of course, Ted Haggard isn't the greatest spokesperson. The guy got busted cheating on his wife with a prostitute and taking illegal drugs. He reminds me of the quote, "A liberal is just a conservative who's been arrested." That said, I do agree that we are nearing the end of the Religious Right representing Evangelicals.
However, I tend to think it's more a generational thing than anything else. Baby Boomers grew up in the free-love sixties and seventies, without a lot of rules and a serious distrst of authoirity. And then when the Boomers became adults and had kids, they got terrfied and leaned on a legalistic view of the Bible to help keep everyone in line. Conversely, Gen-X and Millenials grew up in the more conservative 80's and 90's and don't have the same fears of openness and tolerance that Baby Boomers do. It's not that Christians under 40 are advocating more sex and drugs, they just approach the issues differently. And I expect they will want their churches to approach these issues differently as well.
I suspect that the moral beliefs of the church will remain pretty much the same. The Modern Church will still oppose pre-marital sex. Alcohol and drugs will be frowned on. Homosexuality will probably still be considered a sin. But the difference will be in how these issues are approached in the church. There is gonna be a lot less condemnation and a lot more compassion. Because let's face it. We all sin. And we all need forgiveness.
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