If you didn't like the Christian Right, what are you really not going to like?
The Post-Christian Right – which is what we have now:
“When cultural conservatives disengage from organized religion, they tend to redraw the boundaries of identity, de-emphasizing morality and religion and emphasizing race and nation. Trump is both a beneficiary and a driver of that shift. So is the alt-right.” ~ Rod Dreher, in [i]“The Douthat Scenario Is Coming True”[/i] http://bit.ly/2meGm7x
That is what is left as those Christians, who have not been secularized by the culture, withdraw:
“The long-standing conservative narrative held that America is fundamentally decent but that those decencies are being eroded by an elite that subscribes to non-American, and even anti-American, values. The simultaneous political success of conservatism and ruination of American culture has made this view untenable. Now, a more radical possibility is opening up. Traditional Christians now wonder if a just and righteous society must be built in opposition to a national creed that has led inexorably to libertinism..... the task at hand is the creation of a distinctive Christian culture amid the ruins of the American republican experiment. If there is to be a recovery, it will have to take place during the decline of the American imperium. Perhaps, if some restoration of culture is successful, a political remedy may present itself. But all agree that any national political recovery is secondary, and perhaps ultimately unrelated, to the effort to build Christian communities in a corrupt social order.” ~ Patrick J. Deneen, in “Moral Minority” http://bit.ly/2mDq3MP
“When cultural conservatives disengage from organized religion, they tend to redraw the boundaries of identity, de-emphasizing morality and religion and emphasizing race and nation. Trump is both a beneficiary and a driver of that shift. So is the alt-right.” ~ Rod Dreher, in [i]“The Douthat Scenario Is Coming True”[/i] http://bit.ly/2meGm7x
That is what is left as those Christians, who have not been secularized by the culture, withdraw:
“The long-standing conservative narrative held that America is fundamentally decent but that those decencies are being eroded by an elite that subscribes to non-American, and even anti-American, values. The simultaneous political success of conservatism and ruination of American culture has made this view untenable. Now, a more radical possibility is opening up. Traditional Christians now wonder if a just and righteous society must be built in opposition to a national creed that has led inexorably to libertinism..... the task at hand is the creation of a distinctive Christian culture amid the ruins of the American republican experiment. If there is to be a recovery, it will have to take place during the decline of the American imperium. Perhaps, if some restoration of culture is successful, a political remedy may present itself. But all agree that any national political recovery is secondary, and perhaps ultimately unrelated, to the effort to build Christian communities in a corrupt social order.” ~ Patrick J. Deneen, in “Moral Minority” http://bit.ly/2mDq3MP
