CAN THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT BE SAVED?

[...]in the church where the major tither was having an affair everyone in the community knew about, there he was, in our neighbor congregation's "special music" time, singing "If It Wasn't for That Lighthouse, Where Would This Ship Be?" I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values. The religious right-whether we trace it to the school prayer skirmishes of the 1960s or the segregation academy controversies of the 1970s or the response to Roe v. Wade and the sexual revolution-was always a multifaceted coalition.