That’s why it’s just wrong to frame the differences between the two as “right versus left” or “conservative versus liberal” or much less as a battle between “conservative versus ‘woke.’”
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Both branches are generally politically conservative. After all, both the fundamentalist and Evangelical branches of “born again” Christianity believe in the authority of scripture. The difference is profound but often opaque to those who are outside the “born again” (rather than Mainline) Protestant tradition. Thus, the word “Evangelical” became primarily a political category, obscuring the historical meaning of the term and eradicating a distinction that is still deeply salient within American Christianity-the cultural, theological, and political difference between evangelicalism and fundamentalism.
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In addition, the question papers over tremendous differences within “evangelical” and “born-again” Christianity itself. Black and Hispanic Evangelicals are lost in “all others,” and they’re far more politically diverse than white Evangelicals. Immediately you lose any sense of the racial diversity of American evangelicalism.
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The problems with the question are obvious.