On my creationism (actually, “Adam and Eve”) watch I check out Peter Enns’ blog, now long known for being a rebel against enforced orthodoxy in Evangelicalism, who in today’s post The Deeper Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: We Are Not Allowed to Use It makes this terse and very precise comment:
The real scandal of the Evangelical mind is that we are not allowed to use it.
That one sentence pretty much sums up the entire mess that evangelicalism has wrought in American polity these past 40 years or so.
One of his commenters writes:
ScottnJxn says:
January 25, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Growing up gay in the Southern Baptist religion in Mississippi, I saw and continue to see first hand what happens when folks approach life and faith from a place of fear – it absolutely leads to psychopathology and maladaptation. Everything is a war against them, paranoia runs deep and wide, and victimhood is always conveniently close by after they feign outrage or deliberately persecute. Their ability to absolve themselves from any and all wrongdoing fascinates and infuriates me. What they have done and continue to do to my lgbt brothers and sisters is conduct unbecoming a true follower of Christ and it breaks my heart. There is no turning back for these folks – the evangelical mind has atrophied and in my opinion, it is incapable of evolution or recovery.