Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.