The problem with this is assuming that “white Christian America,” as defined by demographic data, is the same thing as the Christian faith as held by all white people. It’s not. Me, I don’t care that the religious influence of white Christians is declining. I care that the influence of orthodox Christianity is declining.
I know white Christians who profess views that I find antithetical to small-o orthodox Christianity, and Arabs, Asians, and African-Americans who hold to a faith I recognize as authentically Christian. I prefer to stand every single time with non-white Christians who stand for the Gospel than with Christians of my own race and cultural tribe who do not.
When Jones writes of the possibility that white Christians will “retreat into disengaged enclaves,” I think: “Oh, here we go. Somebody’s going to think, ‘Ah ha! That’s the Benedict Option!'” If so, they couldn’t possibly be more wrong, and that for a couple of reasons.
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