We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.