So, there's a herd of "other evangelicals" eh?

 So claimed a friend of James McGrath on Facebook. (McGrath posts as "public," so violating no confidences.)

The friend touts a study by a prof at Carlton College saying that 35 percent of evangelicals may be of this "other type," who the prof hints aren't diehard MAGAts.

Problems? They abound.

First, as I told John W. Moreland, a prof at Multnomah Bible College who posted the link and has good PR reasons to push it? (McGrath's OP had been a piece by John Pavolovitz.)

There's NO DATA. No Pew Research etc.

Second, he pulls back on that right away, saying "15-30 percent" identify as "left-liberal." I have no idea what "left-liberal" means to him, but it's probably several degrees to the right of what it does for me.

Thirdd, in my world of political and religious observation as a newspaper editor secularist with a graduate divinity degree, "other evangelicals" would be reading Sojourners not Christianity Today.

Fourth, per Matthew 7:16, "they will know you by your deeds," are they acting on this? Probably not:

At times, the other evangelicals’ styles of public and political engagement look uncomfortably similar to the conservative evangelicalism against which it is constructed. They reduce complex political issues to dogmatic religious positions. They develop litmus tests to assess the purity or pollution of fellow believers and their political views. They ignore race and its role in maintaining contemporary social, economic, and political inequity. They use strident religious language that suppresses dialogue and dissent. In these moments, despite being substantively opposed to Christian Right style public and political engagement, the other evangelicals, like a mirror, reflect and reverse the original image.

There you go.

As for the one Pew link Markofski DOES have? Millennial evangelicals are still a lot closer to fellow evangelicals than to fellow Millennials. (Other Pew research says they'll likely stay GOP.)

Moreland also ignores that racism and dogwhistles go back to Reagan at the Neshoba County Fair.