How do you feel about Professor Harold Bloom's contention (1992 book) that all American religion is more Gnostic than Christian, [that Americans] believe in “God and me,” which is not historic Christianity at all.
THE RELIGION GUY'S ANSWER:
This question regards the American literary critic's book “The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation.” When first published, many saw eccentric or crackpot thinking as Bloom contended that most Americans' belief “masks itself as Protestant Christianity yet has ceased to be Christian,” floating into Gnosticism.
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