“What do you think would happen if Christianity faded from the US?”—Michael D.

—“What do you think would happen if Christianity faded from the US?”—Michael D. Abbott

Do you mean religious, philosophical, or secular?

As a religion, It is fading, It’s dividing into protestant evangelicals (power) and secular christianity with the major decline (Predictably) coming from either leftist protestants or catholics. And the catholic decline is obviously the result of vatican II, the empty chair, the sexual crimes of the churchmen, the church’s failure to do a purge of sexual predators, the failure to allow married priests, the failure to demand well educated priests (psychologists, psychotherapists), and in general her abandonment of the educated.

Only churchy people think the church is important.
Our people need a religion in the sense that they need a binding mythos, binding rituals, and means of social and personal mindfulness.

And we need social sanction of birth, rite of passage, marriage, birth, and death.

But whatever that system is, the church as we know it is dead in the professional and upper classes.

We have no great narrative builder in the west OTHER THAN ENEMIES.

I have to work on Caesar until I”m done. If no one solves Religion by the time I get to it, and assuming I live long enough to get to it, maybe I’ll work on it.