In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Nancy PearceyAmerica is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
Nancy PearceyAn idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
Nancy Pearcey