Overheard (New York Times, 8-2-17)

America has lived a long time off its thin Christian veneer. That is all finally being stripped away by the combination of mass consumer capitalism and liberal individualism. 

Sociologist Christian Smith, quoted by Rod Dreher, senior editor of The American Conservative, in Dreher’s op-ed, “Trump can’t save American Christianity.” New York Times, 8-2-17
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