"Trump’s capture of the white evangelical movement is simply one particularly dramatic chapter in the longer saga of of its decline over the last 20 years, as millions of evangelicals have given voice and action to the discontent and dissonance that has lived in many hearts and minds for longer than that."
Holly Berkley Fletcher
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/crossing-the-football-field
"Most exvangelicals, as former white evangelicals have come to be known, are probably under 40, according to scant data available. …
According to PRRI, most people leave their religions simply because they stop believing in its teachings. For many exvangelicals, including this group, they don’t stop believing in the tenets of Christianity,"
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"they stop believing in the tenets of evangelical Christianity, which, over past several decades, has set itself apart theologically, culturally, and politically and has little room for internal dissent. White evangelicalism is more than a faith, it’s an identity and a tribe."
William Lindsey 
