Selected responses to “I’m a Gay Evangelical” column

 

è The Billy Graham fundamentalists stole “EVANGELICAL” from the Lutherans, who meant “Lutheran Protestants”  by it, and redefined it to mean “semi-Pelagian (at least)  revivalists.” Now the Christian right wants it to mean, simply, them.  Christians like Drury and me, which include many others on Abet, need to get more specific.  How about “Bible Preaching Born Again Blood-bought Parousiasts”?  I think that would  scare the Politicos from the right and the left from being identified with us, or from attempting to steal our identity. 

 

è For a few years I’ve been playing with the idea of calling myself a “post-evangelical.”  Nobody knows what it means (much as it used to be for the term “postmodern”), but at least I can have the opportunity to explain it, instead of calling myself an evangelical and letting people come to their own, probably mistaken, conclusions.  And in explaining it, I can explain what evangelical used to mean - two opportunities in one!  But, in the end, who would listen that long?  <g>

 

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