Stupid things religious people say

[The Grand Nudger]

Another Catholic "intellectual" speaks. 

In true christian fashion he manages to talk around a thing that is very much happening.  In that christianity failed over decades on the main planks of a broad neo-pagan moral community it left seekers..mostly within the christian faith, heading out for alternatives.  By the 90's there was a demographic boom, overt paganism being the fastest growing religion in the us, and since then it's remained at the top as culture shifts away from the moral order of christianity as it existed and became codified as a counter-revolutionary ideology from and in the form it then existed through the 50's to the 70's.  Christianity did attempt in the 80/90s to cash in on this growth market (the aborted stewardship movement comes to mind especially, as they blipped back up at the rnc this year, likely the now grown children from that subculture) but it was poorly positioned compared to the alternatives above-mentioned seekers had already normalized.  In a broader view, and understanding that paganism (like all religions) is not just or even most importantly a specific pantheon or holy writ - we could observe that the us is right now a majority christo-pagan society and particularly from a christian traditionalists pov our social aims expressed by our governance are more in line with that nascent worldview than the defunct christian worldview of the past.  Cultural infiltration works both ways.