Religion & Presidential Politics: Past Present and Future

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 6:00 PM

It's not your imagination, politics in America has gotten MUCH more godly in the last couple of decades. So much so that scholars are writing serious books about the subject and traveling around the US talking about it. Our own UCCS Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life has arranged for just such a scholar to speak here on March 8 at from 6:00-7:15.

Mark you calendar and round up a couple of "Fox news" watching friends to join us. 

Who: Dr. Randall Balmer, John Phillips Professor in Religion, Dartmouth College; Author of over a dozen books including Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter and God in the White House

When: Wednesday, March 9th, 6:00-7:15 pm

Where: Centennial Hall Auditorium, UCCS campus— Free parking in Lots 222 and 224 Free and open to the public The free parking is in the lot just to the left of the Meadow Lane and Austin Bluffs interception, and thru the traffic circle. The Centennial Hall Auditorium is at the west end of the building adjoining the parking lot.

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Post event remarks...

Seven Freethinkers gathered after the presentation at UCCS to discuss the Distinguished Author and Professor's views and opinions.  We all expressed hope that his evaluation of the Evangelical's waning in political power was true, but doubted that it was so.
 We also disagreed with his assertion that the Evanglical movement had been supportive of women's rights in its early days.  The two women and 5 men in our group at Clyde's in the University center saw a much darker and more powerful movement than Dr. Randall Balmer imagined.  Our speculation was that his early family training in what an Evangelical was might have overly colored ( some might say blinded him) to what it truly was. This lead to a discussion of our own personal history with religious ideas and indoctrination in out our families.
  He did seem very fixed on the idea that Jimmy Carter was sort of the ultimate "evangelical" in politics.  Even though he was ousted from power by the "non evangelical" Ronnie Reagan.
  In summary, the good Doctor's points seemed invalid, and independent from reality.