God's Totalitarians were an audacious bunch. As World War II was wrecking any promise the Great War had left standing, one of them dared to posit that "To believe as a Christian is to believe in the possibility of a Christian world." Further, he insisted that "By its nature, Christianity cannot be content with a niche granted it for the sake of its humanizing influence or its venerable age. It is either the driving passion of our lives and the heart of the world or it is nothing." Another, speaking at the same moment, averred that it was time to "make the United States a Christian nation again, as she was in the days of the Puritans."
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