{"id":1306,"date":"2013-07-26T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/07\/the-rise-of-the-christian-left-in-america.html"},"modified":"2013-07-26T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T11:20:00","slug":"the-rise-of-the-christian-left-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/07\/the-rise-of-the-christian-left-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Christian Left in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
In June 1979, a coalition of conservative religious leaders led by a Jewish Howard Phillips, Catholic Paul Weyrich, and evangelical televangelist Jerry Falwell banded together to wage a political \u201choly war\u201d against the liberal establishment. They called their organization the \u201cMoral Majority\u201d to signify the large number of social conservatives they believed were being ignored across American culture.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Forming a political action committee, the organization\u00a0registered 4 million voters<\/a>in 1980 and purchased $10 million in radio and television ads questioning President Carter\u2019s patriotism and Christianity. Its message struck a chord with a large swath of Americans, and their efforts are credited with helping to elect Ronald Reagan. More importantly, the birth of the coalition began of a period of political dominance for the religious conservatives that would span at least three decades.<\/span><\/div>\n

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But according to\u00a0a new survey<\/a>\u00a0by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)\u00a0in partnership with the Brookings Institution, the religious balance of power is shifting in ways that could make the religious left the new \u201cMoral Majority,\u201d figuratively speaking. If current trends persist, religious progressives will soon outnumber religious conservatives, a group that is shrinking with each successive generation, the data show.<\/span><\/div>\n
PRRI\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that 23 percent of 18- to 33-year-olds are religious progressives, 17 percent are religious conservatives, and 22 percent are nonreligious. By contrast, only 12 percent of 66- to 88-year-olds are religious progressives, while about half are religious conservatives. The survey used a religious-orientation scale that \u201ccombines theological, economic, and social outlooks.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat you clearly see in the data when you move from the oldest Americans to youngest Americans is a stability among religious moderates and decreased appeal in religious conservatism,\u201d says PRRI CEO Robert Jones.<\/span><\/div>\n

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