{"id":248,"date":"2015-01-08T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2015\/01\/what-newsweek-gets-wrong-about-evangelicals.html"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:57:07","slug":"what-newsweek-gets-wrong-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2015\/01\/what-newsweek-gets-wrong-about.html","title":{"rendered":"What Newsweek Gets Wrong About Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cThey wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,\u201d writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments\u2026They are God\u2019s frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

So begins Eichenwald\u2019s recent cover story for Newsweek, \u201cThe Bible: So Misunderstood It\u2019s a Sin,\u201d <\/a>which the author claims is meant to enlighten readers about the true nature and content of the Bible, but which almost certainly alienates the very people it aims to persuade by caricaturing and mocking them in the opening paragraphs.<\/p>\n

I grew up evangelical in the small Southern town made famous for its fundamentalism by the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. I have written both warmly and critically<\/a> about that evangelical upbringing, speaking out against problematic teachings regarding gender, sexuality, science and abuse.<\/p>\n

I tackled biblical literalism and its negative affects on women with a yearlong project and book entitled, \u201cA Year of Biblical Womanhood<\/a>.\u201d No one familiar with my work would consider me an unthinking apologist of evangelical culture. Indeed, plenty of evangelicals don\u2019t consider me an evangelical anymore.<\/p>\n

And yet I simply do not recognize my evangelical family, friends or even critics in Eichenwald\u2019s misinformed opening screed.<\/span><\/div>\n

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