20 Myths About Religion and Politics (with Ryan Burge)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Is evangelical faith in decline today? Is abortion the main political issue for Christians? Do pastors talk about politics too much from their pulpits? Political scientist Ryan Burge upends much of the conventional wisdom about the mixture of religion and politics. Join Sean and Scott as they discuss Dr. Burge's surprising findings about the intersection of Christian faith and politics. Ryan Burge is Assistant Professor of Political Science as well as the Graduat...

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0:00.0	Is evangelicalism in decline? Is it true that researchers are biased toward
0:06.6	Christians? Is it true that college leads young people away from religion?
0:10.6	These are some of the myths we're going to talk about today as we
0:13.6	explore with our guest Dr. Ryan Burge, professor of political science at
0:17.2	Eastern Illinois University. I'm Scott Ray and I'm Sean McDowell and this is
0:21.8	a Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology by O'La University.
0:25.6	So Ryan, thanks so much for being with us.
0:27.6	Really appreciate your research on this.
0:30.1	And I have to admit, there were of those these myths about religion and politics I held myself
0:36.5	until I read your book.
0:38.5	Well that makes me feel very good about writing the book then.
0:41.2	Well tell us a little bit about what motivated you to write this, and I'm in particular, I'm interested
0:46.4	in how did you select the 20 myths that you picked, because I suspect you left a lot of stuff on the table that's going to find its way into a book down the line.
0:58.0	Yeah, I'm actually keeping like a running note on my phone of all the myths I'm hearing in the
1:03.7	last couple of months that I could add to the second edition of such a book but
1:07.3	really it just came about by being online and doing podcasts and reading news
1:11.8	articles and just seeing these kind of same precision doing podcasts and reading news articles
1:13.0	and just seeing these kind of same persistent facts,
1:16.3	in air quotes, being kind of thrown out there
1:18.0	by Christians and non-Christians alike
1:19.7	about how the world works religiously, politically, how they interact.
1:23.8	I just wanted to kind of put down like in a concrete way of saying like the thing that you
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