Evangelicals are losing the lifestyle war. Imagine if it’s their mistake?

In 2016, writer and filmmaker Ben Howe found himself disillusioned with the spiritual movement he’d always called home. In the quest for electoral success, many American evangelicals embraced moral relativism and toxic partisanship.

Whatever happened towards the Moral Bulk, who headed to Washington in the ’80s to plant the flag of Christian values? Where were the Christian market leaders that surfaced from that movement and led the about The Immoral Bulk: Why Evangelicals Chose Politics Power Over Christian Values charge against Costs Clinton for his deception and unfaithfulness? Was all that a sham? Or have they just dropped sight of why they wanted to win in the first place? In the 1980s scandals till today, evangelicals have often been caricatured being a congregation of judgmental and prudish rubes used by thundering pastors consumed with greed and lust for power. Do the critics possess a point?

In The Immoral Majority, Howe-still a believer but still deeply conservative-analyzes and debunks the intellectual dishonesty and manipulative rhetoric which evangelical leaders use to convince Christians to toe the Republican Party line. He strolls us through the history of the Christian Right, aswell as the events from the last three decades which led to the current state of the traditional movement most importantly.

So long as evangelicals prioritize power over persuasion, Howe argues, their pews will be empty and their national impact will dwindle. If evangelicals desire to prevent cultural irrelevance going forward, it will mean valuing the eternal over the ephemeral, humility over ego, and resisting the seduction of political power, regardless of the cost. The Immoral Bulk demonstrates how the Spiritual Right is selecting the profits of this world at the expense of its soul-and why it’s not too late to improve course.