Or, as people of faith are wont to contend, is that a ridiculous and ignorant description—a fundamental misunderstanding of how religion works?
I guess I’ve shown my hand already, so I may as well say: I’m in the latter camp. Faith is not a private matter that can be confined to mind or locked away in small and specialized spaces, what National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty once dubbed a “religious autonomous zone.” It demands to shape entire lives.
