The biggest threat facing America is not a faltering economy or a spate of books by famed atheists. Rather, the country meets new challenges due to the decline of traditional Christianity, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat suggests in Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press). Douthat has taken his own personal tour of American Christianity: he was baptized Episcopalian, attended evangelical and Pentecostal churches as a child, and converted to Catholicism at age 17. He argues that prosperity preachers, self-esteem gurus, and politics operating as religion contribute to the... TAGGED: Ross Douthat, America, New York Times, columnist , Free PressRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| Despite incessant cries by a certain class of foreign policy intellectual that America is declining and China is rising, Susan Yoshihara told The Daily Caller that demographic trends don’t bode well for the Sleeping Dragon. more ›› |
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