Book about Evangelicals and Politics

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I read some time ago an article by Balmer: http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i42/42b00601.htm

I summarize his argument as the following:
1)  The leaders of the Religious Right are hypocrites; therefore, their policies must be wrong.
2)  True Christians practice Christianity by proxy (using government as Robinhood to forcefully take from the rich in order to support the poor).

I highlighted the one part where Balmer is wrong.

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2)  True Christians practice Christianity by proxy (using government as Robinhood to forcefully take from the rich in order to support the poor).

Mark 10:24-25: It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

I love it how people like to quote this verse, but never quote what comes next:
Mark 10:26And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? 27And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

The "camel" is a mistranslation from the aramaic to the greek anyways. The correct reference is to a ship's rope.