{"id":2182,"date":"2012-04-20T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/04\/americas-christian-hypocrisy.html"},"modified":"2012-04-20T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:49:00","slug":"americas-christian-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/04\/americas-christian-hypocrisy.html","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Christian hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Here\u2019s a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: \u201cChristians \u2018More Likely to Be Leftwing\u2019 and Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality.\u201d Sounds too hard to believe, right? Well, it\u2019s true \u2014 only not here in America, but in the United Kingdom.<\/div>\n
That headline, from London\u2019s Daily Mail, summed up the two-tiered conclusion of a new report from the British think tank Demos, which found that in England 1) \u201creligious people are more active citizens (who) volunteer more, donate more to charity and are more likely to campaign on political issues,\u201d and 2) \u201creligious people are more likely to be politically progressive (people who) put a greater value on equality than the non-religious, are more likely to be welcoming of immigrants as neighbors (and) more likely to put themselves on the left of the political spectrum.\u201d<\/div>\n
These findings are important to America for two reasons.<\/div>\n
First, they tell us that, contrary to evidence in the United States, the intersection of religion and politics doesn\u2019t have to be fraught with hypocrisy. Britain is a Christian-dominated country, and the Christian Bible is filled with liberal economic sentiment. It makes perfect sense, then, that the more devoutly loyal to that Bible one is, the more progressive one would be on economics.<\/div>\n
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That highlights the second reason this data is significant: The findings underscore an obvious contradiction in our own religious politics.<\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: \u201cChristians \u2018More Likely to Be Leftwing\u2019 and Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality.\u201d Sounds too hard to believe, right? Well, it\u2019s true \u2014 only not here in America, but in the United Kingdom. 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