That is a very loose idea of rhem.
The general belief of them is..
"Evangelicals take the Bible seriously and believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The term "evangelical" comes from the Greek word euangelion, meaning "the good news" or the "gospel." Thus, the evangelical faith focuses on the "good news" of salvation brought to sinners by Jesus Christ."
But Zach this is a way looser idea. Heck it's so broad it fits those who are definitely not Evangelicals like Catholics. Hell
@ATP do you take the Bible seriously, and believe that Jesus is your lord and savior?
I mean that definition is what a CHRISTIAN is all Christians think of the Bible as a historical document and message inspired by God. They believe in the Old Testament, and they believe in the New that Jesus was born to a virgin, all of the miracles attributed to him in the Bible(water into wine, and walking on water, healing the sick, raising the dead, etc.) actually were done by him. He was crucified and died, and three days later he resurrected. He is the second person of the trinity.
That's basic Christianity, Lutherans, Calvinists, Catholics, Baptists, Orthodox all believe this.
Also funny story Martin Luther actually wanted his denomination to be called evangelical instead of Lutheran because in the past sects that were heretical like Arians, and Sabellians were named after their founders. Same reason Calvinists want to be called Reformed instead of after John Calvin.
This has the same energy as
"Of course I know about Star Wars.
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film[a] and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon."
How should I define evangelicals then? They are not an organized bunch, I mean it's similar to non denominational Christians. It's basically hipster new age Christianity, they basically took some of the basics of baptists and then added whatever heretical new age beliefs they wanted should I specify the new age things? Like prosperity gospel, the charasmatic movement with pastors running mega church's, worshipping Israel(it's ok to support Israel for secular reasons, but if you are tying the modern state of Israel to biblical Israel then you are a heretic)
Watch it, you may have a right to your opinions but as a Southern Baptist which many might describe as 'Evangelical' I would prefer you refrain from putting such a broad and pretty offending label on a whole bunch of people I know.
Evangelicals are similar to non denominational.
Now most of those are Baptists, but not all or even most Baptists are non denominational or evangelical.
As for the label death cult I guess we can talk below about how it applies to evangelicals.
How is taking the inevitability of Jesus's eventual Resurrection and the destruction of the world as detailed in the Book of Revelations as a fact a sign that you want death or misery? Indeed, the only reason you can describe it as a 'death cult' is by acknowledging you (and by extension the rest of the Orthodox Church) do not believe one of the central tenants of Christianity that Jesus will be resurrected or even more egregious that you view his resurrection, or the end as described as an inherently negative thing.
Furthermore, preparing your soul for the inevitability of Christ return or in absence your personal death is pretty much present in every sect of Christianity, so I don't see how that equation works...
First part you are combining two things, Christs return with all the other tribulations that are supposed to be happening in the end times. The End Times are bad, Christ's return is what saves the world. The book of revelations can be hard to read since not all of it is literal some of it is metaphorical so it's difficult to tell which is which since it deals with prophecy what WILL happen as opposed to history what HAS happened.
However the disturbing thing you said that indicates support for evangelicalism is that you think it's egregious or bad that someone would see the prophecy as a bad thing. Yes little one massive war, a coup by the literal child of the devil where he rules for at least 7 years, if it happens in current times that means that the Anti Christ's power/nation will be our country being the backbone of it, becoming the worst nation in history worse than the Soviets, or Mao's China, or the Nazis, and worthy of all souls looking down on it and spitting on it, also oppressing Christians before God finally comes back to destroy this wicked nation and save the faithful. Yes God coming to save the faithful is good, but all of the stuff before is not, you will have to live through a tyrannical regime that will impoverish you beat you, rape you, kill you maybe. Because guess what the rapture is not biblical it's a heresy that was added on in the 1800's.
Yes revelations is prophecy, and it will happen but wishing it to happen earlier instead of later IS death cult behavior. God has given bad prophecies before, both to Israel and others. I mean tell me did God not have Jonah a prophet give Ninevh a prophecy of their destruction(conditional on their wickedness or lack of repentence)?
Should they have been happy with that prophecy and tried to make it come about?
Same with revelation unlike with Nineveh's propecy revelations WILL happen eventually but it doesen't have to be in modern days. It could be 100 years from now, 1000, 10,000. As long as humans are around it is possible, trying to manipulate it to come earlier is arrogant and semi blasphemy, God moves at his own time.
There is nothing wrong with making sure your soul is ready for God's return or your death, as no human knows when either comes. But that's not death cult behavior. All Christians, heck all real religions have the goal of making sure they are able to enter a good afterlife after death.
Given I've never heard of either of those figures (maybe you brought up one of them once? I don't recall), but you're not naming other, much more well-known evangelical figures like Billy Graham, really says a lot about how little you understand of Evangelicals.
John Hagee you've never heard of him? Besides being a mega church pastor also is the founder and chairman of CUFI the largest Christian zionist group? Do you just not know who big well known figures are or do you try to avoid it for some reason?
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