So Things are Not Going So Well, What Next?
A recent article from Pew Research starts off : Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” This accelerating trend is reshaping the U.S. religious landscape, leading many people to wonder what the future of religion in America might look like. This is a crisis. It’s destroying the shared morality that has made freedom possible in the USA. This will fuel tyrannical legislation to try to enforce morality, and we Christians will probably not like the morality that will be enforced. (See A Free People’s Suicide by Os Guinness) How did we get into this mess? I think especially the lack of apologetics at the level of the intellectual elites we have exhibited in the last two generations. Also, anti-intellectualism among evangelical Christians has lead us to abandon fields such as philosophy and college professorship. (See The Sca...