Celebrating liberation from the church’s supposed captivity under reputedly fallen Christendom has become popular among some conservative and liberal Protestants. According to this narrative, cultural Christianity often suffocated authentic faith and facilitated superficial religion.
Under Christendom, politicians mouthed pieties they didn’t believe, and persons attended church for business contacts and socializing. Now that Christendom is supposedly over, the wheat is more clearly separated from the chaff, and the more authentically faithful can witness to Christian truth with greater clarity, amid greater cultural and perhaps even legal adversity. Martyrdom will purge and embolden the true church.
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