As an evangelical pastor for over 40 years, I can tell that for a surety, the largest group to resist the Covid mandates were evangelicals. Our church, one of the largest in our city, shut down for a total of 3 weeks, and when we saw the ineffectiveness of the mandates we resumed attendance. Evangelicals as a whole were the most resistant and fee thinkers in the Covid debacle, one of the reasons we were hated by the left. I do agree with your assessment of Hamas exposing the new left. I just don’t think you have to find someone on the right to ‘balance that out’, something I see all too often for the rapidly increasing exodus from those on the left, who want to make sure they are not at the same time identified with the right.
As an evangelical pastor for over 40 years, I can tell that for a surety, the largest group to resist the Covid mandates were evangelicals. Our church, one of the largest in our city, shut down for a total of 3 weeks, and when we saw the ineffectiveness of the mandates we resumed attendance. Evangelicals as a whole were the most resistant and fee thinkers in the Covid debacle, one of the reasons we were hated by the left. I do agree with your assessment of Hamas exposing the new left. I just don’t think you have to find someone on the right to ‘balance that out’, something I see all too often for the rapidly increasing exodus from those on the left, who want to make sure they are not at the same time identified with the right.
I agree; it was the major denominations that gave in, not the evangelical world, especially not the non-denominational independent types.