American Religion
Religious zeal, directed at the Jews.
It’s an enigma that’s vexed demographers for 40 years. The answer turns out not to be natural disasters or pandemics, or even economics, but something deeper: a decline in religion.
To the believer, the free exercise of religion is a pervasive thing—an identity, not just an idea.
“Freeing religious exercise from political control will allow religion to flourish—not simply be tolerated.”
Witches, SoulCycle, and the post-Christian future.
In the U.S., Jews, too, have absorbed Protestant individualism.
Only lukewarm Christianity seems to be losing ground.
Leviticus on the Fourth of July.
Madison believed that liberty would lead religion to flourish.
To help civil society, bolster houses of worship.
A nation under God.
And there’s a connection among them.
Religions can hope to thrive only if they serve a purpose that is not met elsewhere in society.
But not necessarily healthier.
