America's secular future

If you have the time, please read this longer article on the secular future of our nation.

There is a lot of value in here, but I wanted to highlight two parts for those taking only a quick glance at this post.

The author makes this statement. "Not surprisingly, law professors today who view traditional Christianity as a social threat are beginning to theorize changes to the law."  My only comment is that we are already well beyond theoretical changes to common law.  Don't for a second believe that this train hasn't already left the station.

The author makes some great points in the conclusion. "To be blunt: Religious people who hold traditional values are in the way of what many powerful people want. We are in the way of widespread acceptance of abortion, unrestricted embryonic stem cell research and experimentation with fetal tissue. We are in the way of doctor-assisted suicide, euthanasia and the mercy-killing of genetically defective infants. We are in the way of new reproductive technologies, which will become more important as our society makes sex more sterile. We are in the way of gay rights and the redefinition of marriage. We are in the way of the nones and the engaged progressives and their larger goal of deconstructing traditional moral limits so that they can be reconstructed in accord with their vision of the future.

Traditional religious people are in the way, and many of our fellow Americans are doing their best to push us out of the way. The outspoken among us have been largely expelled from higher education and other institutions of cultural authority. This exclusion should not surprise us. Traditional Christianity and churchgoing no longer define the social consensus in the United States. The Protestant era is over, and in its demise we have not seen the Catholic moment that the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, founder of First Things, hoped for. Instead, we seem to be heading into the secular moment, which is almost certain to find ways to redefine religious liberty, or at least try."

Make no mistake about it, if you are a committed Christian you are in the way so buckle down and get ready, the ride into the progressive, humanistic paradise is going to get a little bumpy.