Re: [RC] Evangelicals and Politics --the view ( sometimes accurately ) from the Left

[David R. Block]

Title: Boortz4 Signature

Probably regional. "Evangelical" as I grew up with it was comprised of the Baptists (or all stripes-including independent fundamentalists whether they like it or not-they don't), Pentecostals, Assembly of God, Church of Christ, Bible Churches, and just about everything Protestant outside of Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran (although my home Lutheran church explicitly had "Evangelical" in the name), and Presbyterians-although some Methodists still fit. There are some that are so far out *cough* First Methodist Church of Shreveport *cough* that "looney tunes" is the best description. For simplification, if you hold to infant baptism then you are disqualified-the Lutherans being the strange exception who want to be included. So my take on "Evangelical" is rather broad. David  "I am so Libertarian that I don't think lawyers and doctors should be licensed by the government. I am so Libertarian that I make some Libertarians cringe."--Neal Boortz On 3/16/2012 12:02 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Interesting; I wonder if that's regional. The bulk of evangelicals I know have strong fundamentalist sympathies. Perhaps it isn't reciprocated... Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2012, at 22:22, "David R. Block" <david.r.bl...@verizon.net> wrote: This article seems to equate "evangelical" with "fundamentalist." That's interesting and ironic, since most fundamentalists do not even like the word "evangelical." I see that they don't let that get in the way of a good polemical argument, even if it pisses the fundamentalists off by calling them evangelical. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org