Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The idea that America has some distinctive role to play in the unfolding of God's plan is compatible with orthodox Christianity. But… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protestants moved… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of great things that megachurches and successful fundraising appeals can allow you to do, especially in terms of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Christians can disagree about public policy in good faith, and a libertarian and a social democrat can both claim to be living… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of anti-Catholicism, whether its sources are Protestant or secular, has always insisted that the church of Rome is the enemy… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think religious individualism doesn't fulfill impulses toward community and solidarity and it doesn't necessarily work for people when things go really… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Indeed, this is perhaps the greatest Christian paradox of all—that the world’s most paradoxical religion has cultivated rationalism and scientific rigor more… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it that way. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
“What he felt during his Spanish encounter with left-wing anti-Christianity was similar to his reactions to the anti-Christianity of the right. The "novelty and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
“In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities’ willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
It is not white nationalism to believe that countries like the United States would be better off with more babies. That belief can be… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected. — Ross Douthat Copy Share
If you live under a system that claims to have high ideals but seems ineradicably opposed to your own people's flourishing, the desire for… — Ross Douthat Copy Share
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