evangelical
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It’s easy to understand how some members of the mainstream media, including MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough, enthusiastically declared that “evangelical leaders” had been “forced or shocked” to “speak out against it.”
From Salon
Some are missionary groups such as United Bible Societies, whose primary activity globally is translating and distributing bibles, and Samaritan’s Purse, a U.S.-based evangelical group that provides medical care and other emergency services.
The second is that, traditionally religious identities like “evangelical Christian,” for example, have, for some, become cultural signifiers for some segment of the population.
From Salon
Only four percent of that population identified as evangelical 40 years ago; today about 20% do.
From Salon
An evangelical Christian, Huckabee first visited Israel more than 50 years ago at 17 and was immediately taken with what he saw as a pioneering, scrappy democracy fighting for independence like early America.
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