Post-Christian America
‘8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life,’ the headline roared.
The report – by the Pew Research Center – announced ‘religion’s role in American life is shrinking,’ went on the say only 13% of Americans think Biden is ‘very religious,’ just 4% think Trump is very religious.
Next the Pew Center asked: Should the Bible influence our laws?
51% said ‘no’ or ‘not much.’
Author John Davidson, in The Federalist, pointed out what Americans see as sacred is changing: We’re leaving the Bible, obeying one God, behind, moving into a post-Christian era where ideologies, creeds, tribes living in the ‘here and now’ each have their own totems.
Davidson added the days when we were a nation where marriage was between a man and a woman are behind us – we now live in a nation where men can become women and children can change their sex.
The author of The Wasteland, T. S. Elliot, in a lecture in 1939 warned about ‘modern paganism.’ In the Roaring 20’s, on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President Calvin Coolidge praised the Declaration as ‘the product of the spiritual insight of the people’ – went on to warn, ‘The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn into a barren scepter…we must cultivate the deference which our fathers had for things that are holy.’
Walking down a different road these days, rolling from Christian to post-Christian, look around at politics, Hollywood, Wall Street – ask yourself: How’s that working out?
Post-Christian America
‘8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life,’ the headline roared.
The report – by the Pew Research Center – announced ‘religion’s role in American life is shrinking,’ went on the say only 13% of Americans think Biden is ‘very religious,’ just 4% think Trump is very religious.
Next the Pew Center asked: Should the Bible influence our laws?
51% said ‘no’ or ‘not much.’
Author John Davidson, in The Federalist, pointed out what Americans see as sacred is changing: We’re leaving the Bible, obeying one God, behind, moving into a post-Christian era where ideologies, creeds, tribes living in the ‘here and now’ each have their own totems.
Davidson added the days when we were a nation where marriage was between a man and a woman are behind us – we now live in a nation where men can become women and children can change their sex.
The author of The Wasteland, T. S. Elliot, in a lecture in 1939 warned about ‘modern paganism.’ In the Roaring 20’s, on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President Calvin Coolidge praised the Declaration as ‘the product of the spiritual insight of the people’ – went on to warn, ‘The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn into a barren scepter…we must cultivate the deference which our fathers had for things that are holy.’
Walking down a different road these days, rolling from Christian to post-Christian, look around at politics, Hollywood, Wall Street – ask yourself: How’s that working out?