Somehow, being non-racist is racist:
“Of course, the Romantic, pagan worldview and revisionist history in THE NEW WORLD are ultimately racist. All people have sinned greatly and fall terribly short of the glory of God, including American Indians in the wilderness before the white man came.”
Luke,
given the movie guide obsession with abhorrent pagan worldviews and the glories of Christianity as manifested in capitalist greed etc. – can you give a rough idea of just what sort of proportion of people seem to share this “Christian worldview?
folks over here are generally of the view that there are some nice intelligwent people on east and west seaboard areas of the USA but that a huge majority across the nation think that Elvis is alive, Bush is a good president, Aliens have abducted 50% of the population and Jesus is some kind of perverse moron ( judging by that movieguide )
what sort of non ironic traffic does that site get?
About a year ago, Dr. Baehr lamented that surveys showed the majority of Christians did not have what he considered a “biblical worldview.” But I also remember reading something that said that over 50% of Republicans believe in a literal devil.
I would guess that it’s probably a small minority that agree with some of his wackier stuff about Christianity=capitalism and so on. But I’d also reckon that a good 25% of the population probably agrees with the major points.
But I’d also suggest that my churchgoing readers may have a better idea.
Huh. I dunno. ‘Born Again’ or ‘Fundamentalist’ has tended to mean ‘Republican’, but then I’ve noticed a slow movement away from that thanks to Bush being, well, a big government kinda President (a big no no for those worried about an expansion towards world government).
It’s weird because America has a sort of Roman-style civic religion wherein Americans are the chosen people and America has a special blessing and mandate from God to, well, be America. I don’t know if that’s Christian or not… it doesn’t seem to be sometimes.
Anyway, one can even be a fairly fundamentalist Christian without quite going Movieguide’s route.. Eh, I’ve heard reasonably solid stats at 30-35%. Personal experience is that it’s mostly the old folk, and that new generations aren’t so much into that. Not so much a literalist reading of the Bible, but the more militaristic leanings, I mean. More of a WWII generation thing?
Eh, I don’t know.