Is America still Christian? Here is the opinion of Rick Perry who addressed 30,000 people in Houston on Saturday, August 6th, 2011 for a nation in crisis. The remarks by the people who posted on The Guardian's site are really eye-opening.
Is America still a Christian country? It's obviously full of people who call themselves Christians; and certainly full of religious believers in a way difficult for many Europeans to understand or to accept. But is what modern Americans believe actually Christianity at all? When the mainstream churches went into an apparently irreversible decline towards the end of the 20th century, this was interpreted as a decline of liberal Christianity, and its replacement by fundamentalism. But is the church of Rick Warren anything more than vaguely therapeutic moralistic deism?
Has the evangelical movement turned itself into an entirely new religion, unrecognisable to "orthodox" European Christianity: a reinterpretation of the Christian myths almost as strange as Mormonism? Consider the YouTube video of a Nascar chaplain praying for all the sponsors of the event, from Toyota to Sunoco, and then thanking God for his "hot wife" before finishing with the doxology "Boogity boogity boogity. Amen". Is this really anything that traditional theologians could recognise as Christian? Or is it just a wrapper round some mixture of superstition and advertising?
Is America still Christian? Go to this site and read the postings by folks who have plenty to say about the topic of whether or not America is still Christian. Whew!
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