What would happen if we disbanded evangelicalism for the 2012 presidential election? That is, what if evangelicals suspended affiliations with each other through any organizations or networks and simply embedded themselves as voters among non-religious constituencies?

This would mean no voter guides published by any Christian non-profit or para-church organizations; no indirect endorsements of candidates on Christian talk radio, or on television, or by pastors; and no giving political candidates, or their emissaries, access to any churches, Christian colleges, or any group of gathered believers for any reason.

What would happen?

I was prompted to think about this after watching a documentary produced in England titled God Bless America, which reveals how evangelical Christians, and their organizations, were nothing more than mere pawns in a political game of chess during the 2008 presidential race. I don’t get nauseated often, but the ways in which this film shows how easily manipulated evangelicals were by candidates who would opportunistically say whatever itching church-going ears wanted to hear literally turned my stomach. [Editor’s note: the original URL (link) referenced is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.]

For example, “progressive” Christians on the left played right into the hands of the Obama team. The emergence of a “new kind of evangelical,” one that doesn’t care about so much about the politics of abortion or same-sex marriage, was nothing less than high-octane gasoline for the Barack Obama machine. These “social justice” evangelicals threw out the window economic thinking and facts about human nature in order to do all they could to disassociate themselves with “conservatives” and the “religious right”—the kind of evangelicals who would rather “end poverty” than create conditions for economic empowerment and liberation for poor.

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