Description: Moby answers the question "What do Evangelicals stand for?" He believes the Evangelicals have no biblical foundation for their beliefs.
Transcript:
When I was in college, I studied linguistic philosophy. And in talk . . . You know, and it was basically a waste of time . . . a really fun waste of time. But the one thing that you learned early on is that in order to use language, language had to be . . . you know . . . terms had to be clearly, objectively understood. And a term like “Christianity”, it means so many different things to so many different people that – and I don’t mean this in a value judgment way – but it’s sort of a meaningless term. You know, because if you say “Christianity” to a Russian Orthodox, it means something very different to them than it would mean to a Southern Baptist or a snake handler. You know, Christianity to a voodoo priest or to a Roman Catholic mean very different things. So I . . . I almost don’t know how to talk about Christianity. I mean unless you wanna talk about, you know, contemporary, North American Christianity – specifically like the Evangelical Movement – which boggles my mind ‘cause it has absolutely nothing to do with the teachings of Christ.
Well the agenda of the evangelicals, there’s no biblical foundation for it, you know? They’re pro family, pro . . . You know, they’re patriotic, and they’re pro war, and they’re pro death penalty, and they’re anti-homosexuality. And none of . . . You know, if you look through the teachings of Christ, there’s no foundation for the evangelical agenda in the teachings of Christ. And I just . . . that boggles my mind. I mean, evangelical Christians are kind of like vegans who eat hamburgers.Recorded on: 5/28/07