Yes re the ennui. Just want to support Nichols' excellent point: At the Principles First event, Mona talked with David French and Russell Moore - "Christianity in Crisis: Trump, Politics, and the Future of Faith." Mona said, "There was a good line in a piece by Pete Wehner in The Atlantic where he quoted a pastor, I think, who said, for …
Yes re the ennui. Just want to support Nichols' excellent point: At the Principles First event, Mona talked with David French and Russell Moore - "Christianity in Crisis: Trump, Politics, and the Future of Faith." Mona said, "There was a good line in a piece by Pete Wehner in The Atlantic where he quoted a pastor, I think, who said, for a lot of these people [rabid, right-wing, evangelical Christians] Christianity is more of a hood ornament than a true faith. So what do you make of that? Is that what we're dealing with? Are these people, in a way, post-Christian?"
Moore responded: "I think that what is at the root of a lot of this is boredom. Yes! Yes! I think there is such an absence of genuine connection and genuine experience of transcendence in American life right now that people can get a kind of jolt. sort of an artificial simulation of life by hating people and lining up behind a political ideology" [https://www.thebulwark.com/p/christianity-in-crisis-trump-politics].
So, what we need is places of genuine connection. To me, that is accomplished only by face to face, recurring, local, community groups led by good and decent people who value the American values of the Declaration, specifically all men are created equal, all humans have inherent dignity.
Yes re the ennui. Just want to support Nichols' excellent point: At the Principles First event, Mona talked with David French and Russell Moore - "Christianity in Crisis: Trump, Politics, and the Future of Faith." Mona said, "There was a good line in a piece by Pete Wehner in The Atlantic where he quoted a pastor, I think, who said, for a lot of these people [rabid, right-wing, evangelical Christians] Christianity is more of a hood ornament than a true faith. So what do you make of that? Is that what we're dealing with? Are these people, in a way, post-Christian?"
Moore responded: "I think that what is at the root of a lot of this is boredom. Yes! Yes! I think there is such an absence of genuine connection and genuine experience of transcendence in American life right now that people can get a kind of jolt. sort of an artificial simulation of life by hating people and lining up behind a political ideology" [https://www.thebulwark.com/p/christianity-in-crisis-trump-politics].
So, what we need is places of genuine connection. To me, that is accomplished only by face to face, recurring, local, community groups led by good and decent people who value the American values of the Declaration, specifically all men are created equal, all humans have inherent dignity.