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“I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight into it.” quote by Ross Douthat — Download Open image

“I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight into it.”

Ross Douthat

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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.

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There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future…

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Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

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“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 shock of the Nazis", Auden wrote, and the blitheness with which Hitler's acolytes dismissed Christianity "on the grounds that to love one's neighbor as oneself was a command fit only for effeminate weaklings", pushed him inexorably…

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“In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities’ willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to…

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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 a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

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Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.

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