Christian Smith, who has made a living correcting mistaken notions about the lives of evangelicals, recently reprimanded evangelicals for their inappropriate use of statistics. Drawing from the extreme and bogus "only 4% of young Christians will remain Christian" stat, Smith laments the reactive and alarmist attitude that evangelicals--and their non-profit ministries--thrive on.
His challenge to use statistics responsibly is certainly appropriate. Yet he descends into the sort of polarizing, alarmist rhetoric that he so eschews in those he criticizes.
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