2. They prefer Christian culture to Christian counter-culture.
This was a stellar observation from Alex Wilgus. I really can’t do much better than he has in explaining this difference, which is primarily generational:
For millennial pastors, bloggers and others who dabble in ideas and concepts, in other words, those who think for their supper, we may ask ourselves why anyone would vote the path of least resistance, why they would not claim the hallowed mantle of being “counter-cultural.” It’s because most people are not counter-cultural, nor do they want to be. They’d rather their culture be the right sort of culture that they can comfortably assimilate with–a Christian culture. So they vote the candidate they suppose will vouchsafe that culture. In this particular race, I don’t think that’s a bet that will work out, but I don’t think that’s always the wrong way to think about religion in politics, and I certainly don’t begrudge any people their time-worn temperaments. I am a product of my own after all, one that tells me that the mark of virtue is to be an outlier, marginal, alternative, unblessed by the mainstream–all without actually retreating from the comforts of society.
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