American life Quote by Ross Douthat

Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating…

— Ross Douthat

The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there.…

— Ross Douthat

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may…

— Jon Meacham

The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians,…

— James Madison

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in…

— Mark Twain

There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution,…

— Diana L. Eck

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

— Mitch Horowitz

America is an unusually religious nation.

— Rodney Stark

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“the more a Christian intentionally cultivates the joy of God in daily life, the more deeply embedded the joy of God will become in…

— Greg Forster

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

— Alan Wolfe

“The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.”

— James Davison Hunter