Kevin Drum makes a sad, but true, commentary about the state of evangelicalism in the United States (from an outsider’s perspective):
I have to confess that I’ve always been skeptical of the notion that liberals should spend much time trying to get the Christian evangelical community on our side. When push comes to shove, they just care way more about sex and “moral degeneracy” than they do about helping the poor or taking care of the environment, and that means that outreach efforts are ultimately doomed to failure.
Jesus spends several orders of magnitude more time talking about issues of poverty and wealth than he does talking about sex. If we’re really concerned about WWJD, shouldn’t we do likewise? I suspect that the gospel would be significantly more attractive if Christians were identified as those who helped people with AIDS, helped the poor lift themselves out of poverty, and challenged oppression and injustice around the world rather than those who wagged their fingers at what people decided to do in their own bedrooms.
Unfortunately, it is the church’s preoccupation with the latter which drowns out the legitimate good it is doing with regard to the former.
