Recently (May 2008), a group of scholars collaborated together to author what they feel is the proper view of what it means to be an evangelical Christian.  Without reprinting the manifesto in its entirety here (to view it in its entirety, simply click on this link), I wanted to copy-and-past some important highlights below - a scathing admonition to be sure!

"We confess that we Evangelicals have betrayed our beliefs by our behavior.
All too often we have trumpeted the gospel of Jesus, but we have replaced biblical
truths with therapeutic techniques, worship with entertainment, discipleship with growth in human potential, church growth with business entrepreneurialism, concern for the church and for the local congregation with expressions of the faith that are churchless and little better than a vapid spirituality, meeting real needs with pandering to felt needs, and mission principles with marketing precepts. In the process we have become known for commercial, diluted, and feel-good gospels of health, wealth, human potential, and religious happy talk, each of which is indistinguishable from the passing fashions of the surrounding world.
All too often we have set out high, clear statements of the authority of the Bible,
but flouted them with lives and lifestyles that are shaped more by our own sinful
preferences and by modern fashions and convenience."

and

"All too often we have disobeyed the great command to love the Lord our God
with our hearts, souls, strength, and minds, and have fallen into an unbecoming anti-intellectualism that is a dire cultural handicap as well as a sin. In particular, some among us have betrayed the strong Christian tradition of a high view of science, epitomized in the very matrix of ideas that gave birth to modern science, and made themselves vulnerable to caricatures of the false hostility between science and faith. By doing so, we have unwittingly given comfort to the unbridled scientism and naturalism that are so rampant in our culture today."

What an indictment! That anti-intellectualism is not only "unbecoming" but also a sin!

Selah!