While right-wing groups are mobilizing angry mobs to yell at school board members that parents have the right to control what their children are taught, evangelical pollster George Barna told religious-right activists at the Family Research Councilā€™s ā€œPray Vote Standā€ summit Thursday that it is their duty to try to indoctrinate other peopleā€™s children into a ā€œbiblical worldview.ā€

Barna, one of the first senior fellows at FRCā€™s recently established Center for Biblical Worldview, specializes in studying what he calls ā€œSAGE Consā€ā€”Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians. What is most striking about FRC and Barnaā€™s ā€œworldviewā€ project is how few peopleā€”and how few conservative evangelicalsā€”measure up to their right-wing ā€œbiblical worldviewā€ standard.

When the Center for Biblical Worldview launched in May, FRC President Tony Perkins said that a biblical worldview ā€œis only achieved when a person believes that the Bible is true, authoritative, and then taught how it is applicable to every area of life, which enables them to live out those beliefs.ā€

Barna told ā€œPray Vote Standā€ attendees that only 6 percent of American adults measure up to that standard of a biblical worldviewā€”and only one out of five people who attend an evangelical church.

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Just the right bible chapters though. If you actually read the thing, Jesus teaches the complete opposite of what conservatism is today.

Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

Jesus is very anti-capitalist all over the bible.

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I think a better way to phrase it is that Jesus is very anit-exploitation of others.

Iā€™m not sure Iā€™d go so far as to say that Jesus is anti-private ownership of the means of production of goods and service. Capitalism can and has been done without it. Unfortunately people are scum and the free market tends to reward those who are able to successfully exploit others.

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