The modern evangelical movement does not take kindly to the secular life Americans are living and was seen as unmoral. The movement’s roots came from the ideas of the Fundamentalists in the early twentieth century. Shading away being called Fundamentalists, Evangelical Christians held the same principles and viewed “secular humanism pervaded all [the] aspects of American life, and that it was especially insidious and prevalent in the political environment” (Maurer 66). Originally the Evangelicals kept their distance from politics since it was “dirty” but in the late 1970’s that completely changed. A popular Evangelical Jerry Falwell, founder of the organization Moral Majority teamed up with Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Republicans in effort to bring American back to being a Christian nation. The Evangelicals wanted to end the secular views of pro-choice, homosexuality being accepted, feminism, and wanted to instill prayer back into the school system (Maurer 67).

Jerry Falwell see’s America as being lead astray from the Bible by the secular society and states, “We need to call America back to God, back to the Bible, and back to moral sanity” (Falwell 144). In order to combat the humanists in America, Falwell created a nonpartisan political organization named, Moral Majority. Falwell claims to support the separation of church and state but he dives into politics to implement his views of religion into the government by using morality as the issue. Moral Majority is framed to be pro-life, pro-traditional family, supporting equal rights for women, oppose illegal drug traffic, ERA and pornography.

The presentation of both Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism by Falwell is about working together for “a great revival of true Christianity in America” (Falwell 152). Falwell describes what is it to be a Fundamentalists along with their weakness of being pessimistic and by sitting on the sidelines with the countries politics and social life. He then notes how the Fundamentalists are helpful to the Evangelicals because they can preach the Bible with authority and conviction (Falwell 150). Next, Falwell goes into the Evangelical Movement and praises the good things that have come from it. With the praises come the areas of weakness too, by saying the Evangelicals need to stop worrying what the world thinks of them. Falwell does an excellent job in displaying the strengths and weakness and ties it up well with joining forces to continue the American revivalism. He points out that they have the same principles and secular people already see them as the same so why not work together in “turn[ing] America back to God” (Falwell 151).