Q & A: Ross Douthat on Rooting Out Bad Religion
Q & A: Ross Douthat on Rooting Out Bad Religion
Why the New York Times columnist wants to see America return to its confessional roots
Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/may/ross-douthat-bad-religion.html
April 16, 2012
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
by Ross Douthat
Free Press,
April 2012 352 pp., $26.00
The biggest threat facing America is not a faltering economy or a spate of books by famed atheists. Rather, the country meets new challenges due to the decline of traditional Christianity, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat suggests in Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press). Douthat has taken his own personal tour of American Christianity: he was baptized Episcopalian, attended evangelical and Pentecostal churches as a child, and converted to Catholicism at age 17. He argues that prosperity preachers, self-esteem gurus, and politics operating as religion contribute to the contemporary decline of America. CT spoke with Douthat about America's decline from a vigorous faith, modern heretics, and why we need a revival of traditional Christianity.
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