Bashing people with your bible appears to be dying out - in Kansas?
Follow the Yellow Brick
Road.
There is an American expression for something that is utterly obvious but not, for some reason, noticed. “Hiding in plain sight“, the Americans call it, and the expression came to my mind as I sat in Kansas City airport waiting for an ice storm to pass…
Creationists, for instance, keep up a constant low-level guerrilla war in this state and, if that is insufficiently odd for you, try going to Topeka to see the Reverend Fred Phelps and his flock at the Westboro Baptist Church…
The “burning at the stake” wing of America’s Christian churches - the wing that stresses vengeance over love - is in trouble. The gentle, Nativity-scene crowd are the ones on the up…
Opinion polls suggest that younger evangelical Christians are falling out of love with the “big causes” their churches have championed in recent years, in particular with opposing abortion and supporting the Iraq war.
I have come to town to speak to these people about whether they still support the Republican Party but that is a minor issue, it seems to me, compared with the much bigger question of how they still support God.
Hidden in plain sight this Christmas, is the softening of evangelical America.
Interesting article and more detail inside - obviously written for non-Americans. There are a lot of positives that may be just “hiding in plain sight”.
Posted: Sun - December 23, 2007 at 06:00 AM