Confessing Evangelical: Thomas Fleming on whether America is “Christian”
This is food for thought from Thomas Fleming in the Spectator (UK) (free registration required):
“The United States was never a ‘Christian country’ in a confessional sense, though it was once a nation of mostly Christians. Today, it is a nation with a weak-kneed Christian majority that elects, year after year, an actively anti-Christian political class that encourages divorce, protects abortion and pornography, and banishes prayer and Christian symbols from public places.
Republican leaders, it is true, pander to their Christian constituents, but they have never and will never lift a finger to advance the cause of Christian morality, much less Christian faith…
If there really were a ‘Christian America’, Hollywood would be broke, and the ashes of both political parties would be reposing quietly in the dustbin of history.”
He misses the point.
There is, in fact, no such thing as a Christian country. What he says would be true were we a country of Christians, but that is a very different thing.