“The new elite class of America is the old one: America’s Mainline Protestant Christians, in both the glory and the annoyingness of their moral confidence and spiritual certainty. They just stripped out the Christianity along the way.....When we recognize their origins in Mainline Protestantism,we can discern some of the ways in which they see the world and themselves. They are, for the most part, politically liberal, preferring that government rather than private associations (such as intact families or the churches they left behind) address social concerns. They remain puritanical and highly judgmental, at least about health, and like all Puritans they are willing to use law to compel behavior they think right.” ~ Joseph Bottum, in “An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America” amzn.to/1dePj6I – a study of the new American Secular Religion
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