I love this. A Boston University sociologist tries to defend evangelicals in that way that only a Northeastern intellectual can (emphasis added):
Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are “barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don’t know, sleep with their sisters or something,” Berger says.
It’s time that attitude changed, he says.
“That was probably never correct, but it’s totally false now and I think the image should be corrected,” Berger said in a recent interview.
So, Dr. Berger, there is a chance that evangelicals lived on Tobacco Road and slept with their sisters? (I’m sure he’s speaking of Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road in Georgia, not the basketball trail here in North Carolina, if that’s any consolation to North Carolinians)
