Prof: End Times Could Play 2012 Role

Matthew Sutton, a Washington State professor, has been featured in the New York Times, explaining how he believes End Times theology will play a role in the 2012 election. A sample from the Pacific Northwest Inlander: “I’ve been working for a while on the rise of evangelical fundamentalists in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. There was a growing movement that seemed increasingly concerned by the rise of fascism. They saw Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin. Then they saw [Franklin] Roosevelt making some of the same moves, which was that he was consolidating power. And all of these things convinced them that things were getting very bad very quickly. But the question that was driving my research was trying to understand evangelical anti-statism. It makes sense why modern conservative Christians would be upset about things like gay marriage or abortion, but I couldn’t understand why there was this knee-jerk hostility to the state”/ Joel Smith , Inlander. More here. (Inlander illustration: Jason Crosby)

Question: What role does your religious filter play in choosing a candidate to vote for?