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
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 fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas. — 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
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
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
Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is… — 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
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
