Bill O'Reilly is wrong. Rap is not to blame for the current crisis in American Christianity. Blame Elvis, that's what I say. He is the main culprit in the current cultural transformation shaking the foundations of religion in America. Elvis Presley's appearance on television in the late 1950s signaled the beginning of the end of Christianity in America, and birthed a religious rival to the Christian churches that is now, finally, winning the hearts and minds and souls of more and more Americans.
The news is aflutter with surveys, commentaries, interviews, confessionals, and reports describing the decline of Christians in America. According to a new Pew study, a spiritual earthquake is dramatically shaking up the landscape of religion in the US. More atheists, more agnostics, more "nones," more switching, more mixing, more interfaith marriages, more "others" -- it all adds up to one stark new reality: less Jesus in American attitudes toward religion.
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