Yes I've been saying this all along. I know their intellectual and moral bankruptcy, because I was on the inside of it once upon a time. They got nothin'.

The open question is not whether they're on the way to irrelevance, but how it will play out. There are still Handmaid's Tale-like scenarios that could lead us through a dystopian hell before it collapses. It's rather like how slavery was an inherently doomed strategy, but it took a horrific civil war to bring even a half-assed end to it.

The usual story, Love thy neighbor unless he is black, brown, gay and on and on. Discrimination is the heart of today's evangelicals which calls into serious question their claim to be morally superior. Unfortunately, it will take a lot of time and work to undo their damage to our secular system.

Excellent news! Thank you for this post.

Evangelicals may be dwindling....but people who are small minded, petty and angry will still band together under some other name or premise to spew their hatred and bigotry. There is a very good reason for separation of church and state and we need to elect officials who understand that. IMHO

Holy crap, I hope so.

Trouble is, they're such a loud bloc of voters and they turn out at every damn election, so they swing more power than they should account for by their numbers. If atheists, for example, were organized around the issues we cared about, like free speech and so on, we would swing more weight than them. But atheists/agnostics are all over the map politically. It's only religion where we tend to agree.

It boggles my mind that they favored an immoral person like Trump.

The sooner, the better.

I hope that it's true, but here in Missouri I have to wonder. We use to be considered a purple state, but with each election we're becoming more red. Missouri has a large segment of the population that's still evangelical, and that's reflected in the overwhelming number of Republicans in office at the state level.

We can only hope.

Yay! I guess clatent hypocrisy does cause problems after all.

Not nearly soon enough!

Trump was not elected by White evangelicals. Donald Trump was elected by a broad spectrum of voters from around the country. Only 20% of Americans report being White evangelicals, and only 77% of those voted for Trump. The numbers just aren’t there but I guess it feels good to have someone to blame.

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The connection between religious association and voting is tenuous. Probably only half of Protestants are active church members. Because of cultural heritage they might SAY that they’re an evangelical, but it is a meaningless bit of data that has nothing do with their vote.

Why do people assume that people voted for Trump because of their church membership? Correlation does not prove causation. If you grew up in an agricultural region there is a good chance that you will have conservative values. Part of that conservatism might be expressed through membership in a Baptist or Methodist Church. To then say that folks voted for Trump because of their church—that borders on the ridiculous IMO.

All the talk about evangelical churches being hypocritical haters—that’s hogwash. I think it is clear who the haters are. They are busily engaging stereotyping and innuendos.

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Finally, it is noteworthy that the evangelical candidate in the last presidential race was Hillary Clinton.

I certainly hope so

As a kid, I remember watching them on television and thinking WTF, I repeat as a kid! I can't wait to see the back door slam their backsides as they leave

I certainly hope so. Closed minded anti science anti knowledge bigots hurt us all.

That's a good thing.

Stoke the fear is exactly what is going on right now and Goldwater was certainly right about the religious right getting into politics. The idiot part of it all is wondering what Trump has to do with it.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Only time will tell.

It is indeed. The problem is that other delusional lumps of humanity still represent a huge portion of the population of the world, some of them more dangerous existentially than the fading evangelical christians.

Word is that Jerry Falwell Jr needed help from Michael Cohen to explain away his "pool boy".