Those who don’t accept “supernatural religion” have little reason to go to church or pay for the upkeep of
the hall.
And, anyway, if they want to they can always migrate to the
nearest UU outpost where the "services" and talk are sure to be more congenial.
On the other hand, it is exactly the “old time religion”
that is the best-selling product of the successful, Evangelical denominations.
And Doubthat is right about the past of progressive
Christianity and the power of the Social Gospel.
Think of William Jennings Bryan.
Those Christians, like today’s Catholic clerics, combined the
most stubborn theological and moral conservatism with political progressivism
as regards its core economic agenda.
But in our time among the Protestants it looks pretty much
like the theological conservatives have formed a permanent alliance with the
Wall Street, bare-knuckle capitalist wing of the Republican Party and left the
old progressive agenda to the self-emptying, theologically liberal churches.
All the worse for progressives.
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