Trump’s candidacy ‘spells end of American religious right’ — my latest just up at Lapido
[ by Charles Cameron — plus a link to Dr Moore’s Erasmus Lecture yesterday ]
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My latest for LapidoMedia concerns Trump and the religious right, and centers on some remarks by Dr Russell Moore. It begins:
DONALD Trump’s presidential bid is dividing not just of the American people but American religious opinion.
Evangelicals and Catholics alike are deeply split on his candidacy.
What’s at stake is both individual conscience and the future of American religious politics.
Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy office, says ‘the Donald Trump phenomenon … is an embrace of the very kind of moral and cultural decadence that conservatives have been saying for a long time is the problem.’
Read the rest on the Lapido site
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Dr Moore gave the 2016 Erasmus Lecture yesterday, after my article went to press: Can the Religious Right be Saved? for First Things [link is to video, I don’t have a transcript]. I am by no means an Evangelical, but I find him very impressive.
