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
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
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
“[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
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
“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
“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
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity. — 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
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
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
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
“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 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
Human beings seek community, and permanent openness is hard to sustain. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
“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 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 rise 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 a healthy… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
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
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 Image
