Thread by @socofthesacred

THREAD: How prevalent is wokeness among white evangelicals (WEs)?

I know, it's a stupid question. I hate the word & there's a 99% chance if you've ever labeled someone "woke" you're an a-hole. But folks are giving sermon series denouncing wokeness so let's try to quantify it. 1/

Let's assume just for the sake of argument someone who's truly "woke" is the kind of person who favors 1) reparations; 2) tearing down Confederate statues; 3) defunding police; and 4) INSISTS on discussing racial issues.

Sound fair? Our PDES data actually has such measures. 2/

Below are 4 statements Americans could indicate agreement with. Scores are 0-4 & adding them together in a "wokeness scale" (cringe) makes a scale from 0-16. Alpha is .88 so the questions hang together. I also divide this into quartiles like @ndrewwhitehead do for CN ... 3/

Now, again, just for argument's sake, let's assume that Americans who score in the top quartile are the "truly woke." Sorta like our "Ambassador" category for #ChristianNationalism, except these are "ambassadors of wokenesss."

So what % of religious groups are "truly woke"? 4/

Here's the answer: Largest % are Black Protestants & Seculars, followed by non-Christian religious groups & liberal (non-born-again) Protestants.

White Evangelicals? 5.3% (If you're curious only 17% of WEs fall above the average on the scale, meaning 83% reject wokeness.) 5/

So what's this mean for Christian leaders who fear rampant "wokeness" in the evangelical church?

My recommendation: If woke evangelicals bother you, you could probably talk to each of them personally. Maybe hold a conference in a large Starbucks.

But while I got you here... 6/

...we might as well compare ambassadors of wokeness to Ambassadors of #ChristianNationalism.

Well over one half (56%) of WEs score in the top quartile on our CN scale.

So if I were worried about a noxious ideology pervading the evangelical church, it'd be CN, not wokeness. 7/7