According to a new study
by the Pew Forum, Protestants are, for the first time in history, not a
majority in the United States of America. I don’t think that’s anything
for evangelical Protestants, or anyone else, to panic about.
Several years ago, I pointed out
here that studies were showing a declining Protestant majority, and
projections were being made for this very reality. Now, the surveys says
we have a 48 percent plurality of Protestants. I wasn’t frantic about
that several years ago, and I’m still not.
When working toward our “God and country” badges, my childhood Boy
Scout troop was shuttled over to the neighborhood United Methodist
church for sessions with the pastor about being good Christians and good
citizens. I remember my Southern Baptist sensibilities being shocked
when the pastor said, in response to a question, that he didn’t believe
in angels or demons. The reigning cultural presence of mainline
Protestantism served the same purpose as the “God and country” badge.
Give us enough Christianity to fight the communists and save the
Republic, they said, but let’s remember not to take it all too
seriously. Continue at Russell D. Moore
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