Premillennial belief made evangelicals refuse even to vote for decades.

Evidence

In the short term, during the middle decades of the twentieth century, evangelicals were largely apolitical; they did not participate in politics, certainly not in any organized way. … Many evangelicals during this time, drawing on their premillennial beliefs and their convictions about the corruptions of American society, refused to register to vote. Politics was the realm of Satan, they reasoned, and besides, this temporal world was condemned and careening toward judgment. Why bother? — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 71

Categorization

• XREF: The premillennialist quietism of the 1930s-60s is the backdrop against which Balmer argues the religious right’s later political surge was a reversal, contradicting the movement’s own account of continuous engagement. — connects to: Some evangelicals reject any connection between Christianity and politics — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 116; Mid-century evangelicals boycotted voting as politics belonged to Satan — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 70; Politics, abortion, and school prayer failed for two decades to rouse evangelicals — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 104 (+3 more)

Related

• Mid-century evangelicals boycotted voting as politics belonged to Satan (similarity 0.88)
• Politics, abortion, and school prayer failed for two decades to rouse evangelicals (similarity 0.82)
• Some evangelicals reject any connection between Christianity and politics (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Mid-century evangelicals boycotted voting as politics belonged to Satan #exemplifies (0.95) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 70
• Premillennialism let even moderate evangelicals defer racial justice to the Second Coming #exemplifies (0.85) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 267
• Politics, abortion, and school prayer failed for two decades to rouse evangelicals #corroborates (0.80) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 104
• Civil War defeat drove southern evangelicals from postmillennialism to premillennialism #expands (0.75) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 264
• Evangelicals abandoned social reform for individual conversion as proto-liberals embraced it #expands (0.75)