In my last article, I suggested that realism demands that we “say goodbye to Christian America,” because it is passing. I intended to join neither those who wholly celebrate this fact nor those who wholly mourn it. Instead I meant it when I claimed, with my former teacher Larry Rasmussen, that “there are advantages and disadvantages to every power position for the church.”
The response I have received has been fascinating. Some appear to have thought I was simply mourning the end of Christian America, and joined me in that mourning. Others thought I was simply celebrating, and joined me in that celebrating. But I genuinely intended to both mourn and celebrate. Because both are appropriate.
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