1. Behind both the Walker flap & the Obama-comments-on-ISIS flap is the idea that liberal believers are by definition inauthentic.
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2. There's some evangelical dog whistles in Walker's comment that I suspect will fly past most people.
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3. Evangelicals often define themselves as authentic believers who have had an experience, not nominal Christians going through the motion
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4. For evangelicals, prime example of nominal Christians are liberal Christians - dangerous because they think they have the faith but don't
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5. So for an evangelical, just because someone was baptized & go to church isn't enough: were they born again?
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6. In many ways, the evangelical attitude has much to recommend to it: you can't always take someone's self-profession at face value.
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7. Although I'd say evangelicals don't go far enough: true depth of belief is unknowable not just in others but in ourselves.
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8. The mind is never unitary: No matter what you believe or don't believe, there's always an internal dissent at the edges.
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@helenacobban True of everyone, I think. But some people keep those dissents more deeply suppressed.
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