An Appendage of American Culture

September 16, 2011 — 1 Comment
An Appendage of American Culture | Having Two Legs

American democracy … [has turned] the gospel into a support for the global spread of democracy and reducing the Church to a timid and tolerant participant in “democratic process.” This may not be surprising in itself, since politicians have often seen the Church as a means to a political end. What is disturbing is that the Church has accepted the liberal democratic story as her own, thereby permitting herself to become an appendage of American culture.

-Peter Leithart, Against Christianity, 62-63.

One response to An Appendage of American Culture

  1. Yikes……boy this is so true…wish i could have said it like this…just what i have alaways thought….I gotta learn how to articulate like this :) I would get far in life….and i am getting older man :)

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