“Zionized” Christians make up a large number of Evangelical Christians, aka the “Christian Right.” This article from the Daily Kos contends that the numbers and influence of the Christian Right are in decline. We’re not familiar with the Daily Kos, but this article does help corroborate what we at We Hold These Truths have contended about the gradual “turning” away from Christian Zionism dogma, as described in our award winning documentary: “Christian Zionism: The Tragedy & The Turning, Part I.” [Ed.-CEC]
The Christian Right could be irrelevant by 2024. EXvangelicals are working to ensure it
“…it appears the numbers of white evangelicals are dwindling enough that they might become irrelevant as a political force as soon as 2024, and direct opposition to their toxic worldview is being led by an increasingly strong and vocal movement of their own disaffected youth: the Exvangelicals.
Nina Burleigh, [“Evangelical Christians Helped Elect Donald Trump, but Their Time as a Major Political Force Is Coming to an End“] Newsweek, Dec. 13, 2018:
The numbers are stark: Twenty years ago, just 46 percent of white evangelical Protestants were older than 50; now, 62 percent are above 50. The median age of white evangelicals is 55. Only 10 percent of Americans under 30 identify as white evangelicals. The exodus of youth is so swift that demographers now predict that evangelicals will likely cease being a major political force in presidential elections by 2024.
…has tracked what he calls a “stair-steps downward trajectory of white Christian presence in the electorate.” In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected, 73 percent of the electorate was white and Christian. By 2012, that number was 53 percent. “If current trends hold steady, 2024 will be a watershed year—the first American election in which white Christian voters do not constitute a majority of voters.”
See the Dem side of the new House of Representatives?That’s the long-term future of American politics.
While the older cohort of the Christian Right is aging and dying out, the younger is abandoning it due to being fed up with hypocrisy and bigotry. Burleigh, as well as providing an overview of Christian Right history, presents the stories of three young men who are now leaders in the Exvangelical movement: Blake Chastain, whose podcast “Exvangelical” gave the movement its name, felt his church’s support of the Iraq War conflicted with biblical teachings. Jason Desautels left his after his preacher mis-blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on Muslims and didn’t apologize when the truth came out. Alex Camire left his church after his mother was demonized by his pastor for her alcoholism and his horizons were broadened by a secular education; his pastor’s endorsement of T***p sealed the deal, exemplifying Burleigh’s point that the T***p phenomenon, while it did not start the Exvangelical exodus, certainly hastened it.
