"What will replace it has not yet become clear"

From Brian McLaren at the Huffington Post:

It’s obvious neither the voices of the poor themselves nor ours raised in solidarity with them are being heard by most of our fellow evangelicals.

Instead, they seem to be tuned in to Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Ann Coulter and others like them. They’ve discovered that by speaking boldly in black-and-white terms, they can sway evangelicals to their bold way, their complexity-free truth, and their highly profitable life.

In my travels, I constantly meet evangelicals — especially young evangelicals — who feel deeply marginalized and disappointed by their religious heritage. It seems to them to have become the chaplaincy for an alien ideology. The evangelical movement seems to be moving in the direction of Mammon, not God; of Pharaoh, not Moses; of Saul, not David; and of Caesar, not Jesus. Their old identity is dying, and what will replace it has not yet become clear.