What makes the US a Christian nation
A front page article in the Asia Times discusses their puzzlement with American Christianity.The well-written article discusses the turn to Unitarianism in New England, and ends by saying "Within the European frame of reference, there is no such thing as American Christendom - no centuries-old schools of theology, no tithes, no livings, no Church taxes, no establishment - there is only Christianity, which revives itself with terrible force in unknowing re-enactment of the past. It does not resemble what Europeans refer to by the word "religion". American Christianity is much closer to what the German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing in 1944 from his cell in Adolf Hitler's prison, called "religionless Christianity". Soren Kierkegaard, I think, would have been pleased.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 6:50 AM
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