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You know how I was surprised the 'evangelicals' are voting for Trump? Perhaps I don't understand that term well because...

Posted by ty97 Mar 3 '16, 08:27

..I saw something else (and I need to find a/the source for it) that one of the groups voting in the GOP Primary that is most against Trump is weekly churchgoers.

I would have thought they were part of the evangelical group but I guess these are not the same group? Or at least not wholly the same?

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My wife and I now go to church every week, but I would never consider myself evangelical. In my mind Evangelical are very conservative Christians.. - Microsoft Mar 3, 08:46 1
- Darn auto-nick -- nm - Walt_Disney Mar 3, 08:46
Thats all, this is very interesting to me. -- nm - ty97 Mar 3, 08:44
Also, I think of all "Born-Again" to be Evangelical. -- nm - amoxy Mar 3, 08:43 1
- They are also very similar in my eyes. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 3, 08:43
Evangelicals are Churchgoers but not all Churchgoers are Evangelicals. - spamlet Mar 3, 08:34 6
- In my head, I could be completely wrong - Strongbad Mar 3, 08:41
- Whoah, whoah, whoah. DOC are in NO way evangelical. We're practically UCC. -- nm - Ender Mar 3, 08:37 3
  - You would know better than I :) I always thought DoC was an offshoot of the Reform movement? -- nm - spamlet Mar 3, 08:38 2
    - We came from the "restoration" movement, but the denominations you're really thinking of split off from us because we weren't strict enough. -- nm - Ender Mar 3, 08:42 1
      - Yes, restoration sorry. Reformation was completely different and I shouldn't try to multi-task. - spamlet Mar 3, 08:46
- right. My wife goes to church every week but she wouldn't consider herself an Evangelical by any stretch -- nm - Beaker Mar 3, 08:37
I also differentiate between weekly churchgoers and evangelical, FWIW. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 3, 08:30 8
- I guess I've been wrongly reading evangelical as (roughly defined) religious person whose religious beliefs are a very important aspect of life - ty97 Mar 3, 08:33 6
  - I think about it in terms of whether the church is focussed on actively spreading its message, the idea of being re-born and how much the Bible is - Roger More Mar 3, 08:47 1
    - This is my impression as well, pretty much. -- nm - mara Mar 3, 08:52
  - flip that and reverse it. -- nm - Spawn Mar 3, 08:37
  - My opinion - Strongbad Mar 3, 08:36
  - Evangelical is essentially "conservative protestant". That still leaves you non-protestant and liberal/mainline protestant. -- nm - Ender Mar 3, 08:35
  - theocrat-in-training -- nm - sweet baboo Mar 3, 08:35
- I look at the term Evangelicals as more of a belief system than just church goers -- nm - eag Mar 3, 08:32
Where's Venn Diagram Man when you need him? -- nm - znufrii, older Mar 3, 08:29

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