Mike Pompeo and William Barr both came under attack this week for speeches on religion. The secretary of state's talk, delivered on Oct. 11 to the Association of Christian Counselors, was titled "Being a Christian Leader." The same day, the attorney general addressed the Notre Dame Law School on the dangers of "militant" secularism.
These displays of piety from members of the president's cabinet startled many cosmopolitan observers. Historian Tom Holland was not among them. He argues that the increasingly secular West remains as locked into Christian assumptions as it has ever been—and that Christianity is the most revolutionary cultural force in history.
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