An Evangelical Christian is a follower of the teachings of Jesus. They live within a knowledge tradition marked by a commitment to reason, truth, authenticity, moderation, and charity.

Evangelicals are dynamic and not parochial, growing explosively all over the world. Evangelicals are urban and rural, black and white, Hispanic and Anglo. They are members of old religious groups and new ones. If you are reading this, you probably have an Evangelical friend, though you may not know it.

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In light of the new Mike Myer's film that mocks religion (in this case Hinduism), there are four obvious things to say and one sad truth.

First, filmmakers have the right to make such films. We should do all we can to protect that right. Religious groups wanting to use the power of law to silence critics are wrong. Such a position has been tried by both secularists (in places like the Soviet Union) and Christians (with public blasphemy laws) and it leads to bad governance and bad for religion.

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Pity the atheist.

There are not very many of them and a great many people in the U.S. already don't like them.

That is too bad, since many atheists are decent people who share basic American commitments to justice and the civil order even if they don't share the basic American belief that these rights are an endowment by the Creator.

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Like the knowledge that you will be hanged in the morning, bad economic times concentrate the mind wonderfully, but with the added advantage of being able to do something with what you have learned next week.

What should we learn from hard times?

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