{"id":52606,"date":"2015-12-14T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rod_dreher-islam_christianity_secularism\/"},"modified":"2015-12-14T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:00:27","slug":"rod_dreher-islam_christianity_secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52606","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher&#8211;Islam, Christianity, Secularism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My answer, as you will have guessed is that no, it is not \u201d\u201d at least any religion that refuses to assimilate and thereby sign its own death warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The Establishment \u201d\u201d the state, the media, the academy, the law, corporations \u201d\u201d will grow less and less tolerant as America becomes more secular, as is likely to happen given the stark falling-away from religion of the millennials. And then what will we Christians do? British Christians are facing this calamity because 70 percent of Britons say they have no religious belief, and therefore likely don\u2019t see a problem with the government\u2019s proposal, or even support it.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to start thinking and talking about this, an acting on it. If you think voting Republican is going to solve this long-term problem, you are deluded. Politics has a role to play, but in the end, politics reflect the will of the people, and if a majority of the people lose their faith, and with it goes an appreciation for religious liberty, politics will avail us nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/islam-christianity-secularism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My answer, as you will have guessed is that no, it is not \u201d\u201d at least any religion that refuses to assimilate and thereby sign its own death warrant. The Establishment \u201d\u201d the state, the media, the academy, the law,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52606\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,172,168,133,426,154,155,151,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ecclesiology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-islam","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}