As a person of faith, I have been horrified to watch Christianity’s fall from grace in mainstream America. The former president’s legacy stands out as an embodiment of what is missing today from our leaders in Congress, and in church.
Yet in recent years that has arguably become the face of mainstream Christianity
I’m not so sure it’s all that recent. But now that xtianity’s numbers are dwindling year over year, it’s now no longer politically incorrect (in the real sense of that term) to point it out, as the number of “nones” is no longer some kind of fringe element and cannot be marginalized quite so easily.
TBF, I grew up around a lot of xtians that were definitely on the left, and in the general sphere, it did take me a bit as a child to square their behaviors and moral structure with the general, mostly right-wing, xtian population. So I definitely know many xtians that actually seem to have paid attention to that Sermon on the Mount type of stuff and try to put it into practice.
I’m not so sure it’s all that recent. But now that xtianity’s numbers are dwindling year over year, it’s now no longer politically incorrect (in the real sense of that term) to point it out, as the number of “nones” is no longer some kind of fringe element and cannot be marginalized quite so easily.
TBF, I grew up around a lot of xtians that were definitely on the left, and in the general sphere, it did take me a bit as a child to square their behaviors and moral structure with the general, mostly right-wing, xtian population. So I definitely know many xtians that actually seem to have paid attention to that Sermon on the Mount type of stuff and try to put it into practice.