Okay...get ready for some of the scariest reading you've done in a long while. And no, it's not a passage from Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe or Stephen King.In fact, the material in question comes from the highly-efficient researcher George Barna who informs us that the last few decades of dumbing down, popularizing, and compromising evangelical religion has produced the most irreligious of results. For instance, despite the Democrats' unrestrained advocacy of value-free sexual promiscuity, abortion, homosexual unions, lethal scientific experimentation, restriction of the rights of religion and speech, and so on, the Barna Group's latest national survey of likely voters shows that most "born again" voters would select the Democratic Party nominee for president, whoever that might be.
Yes, the designation "born again" as used by Americans is somewhat distorted but there's no doubt that the years of caving in to the world, the retreat from careful Bible teaching, an emphasis on religion's highest goal being a pleasurable subjective experience, and other hallmarks of the missional, seeker-friendly, relational, "new evangelicalism" have taken their toll.
Here's the article.
