Woke Evangelical Tactics. Anyone paying close attention to how social justice activists

convince evangelical Christians to adopt their principles notices for general tactics.

Tactic 1, associate egalitarianism and activism with the gospel.

Tactic two, attach quality of life issues to the pro-life movement.

Tactic 3, assume conservative views

conflict with public witness.

And tactic 4, attribute worldly motives

to conservative causes.

In some ways, influential evangelicals, out of step with the people they claim to serve,

picked up where the new atheists of more than a decade ago left off.

They present Christianity in general and the church in particular as responsible or complicit in past and present bigatries.

Western colonialism, American slavery, barriers for women, the Holocaust,

opposition to immigration, an unbridled free market, racial segregation, and the persecution of LGBT-plus people are all placed on the

doorstep of the church. Only instead of coming to the new atheist

conclusion that Christianity is evil,

Evangelical elites blame these social maladies on an inauthentic version of

Christianity they separate themselves from.

This strategy has proven effective in convincing Christians to

feel ashamed of their own history. In some cases, professing evangelicals

desperate to find a link between egalitarian heroes

and their own tradition, even claim heretics of the past

as their own.

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