Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, wrote a piece regarding the flagging number of self-identified Christians in the U.S., the failure of the "religious right" to effect meaningful and permanent change in American politics, and what the combination of those two factors means for the future of Christianity in America.
What it could mean: The idea that the U.S. should and will be governed by explicitly Christian principles, in the hopes that God will, therefore, protect us, is in its death throes.
Not so fast, pal: The U.S. is still a very religious (and very Christian) nation. Given the fact that faith is an intrinsic impulse for humans, is anyone really certain that this trend can't reverse itself?
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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