You can meet and hear 12-time all-American swimmer Riley Gaines, journalist

Mark and Molly Hemingway, Aaron Wren of the American Conservative, Chris Roseboro

of fighting for the faith, and Pastor Brian Wolfiller of Has American Christianity failed at the 2024 issues

etc making the case conference. The Premier Conference for Christian Laeity is Friday

July 12th and Saturday July 13th at Concordia University Chicago.

Learn more and register at issues ETC.org. It has been decades, probably the better part of 50 years since voices in usually out of evangelicalism sometimes the political right

we're warning about the secularization of US society. Well it's gone far beyond secularization.

It's something else now.

It's not just secular.

It's positively pagan.

Welcome back to issues, et cetera.

I'm Todd Wilkin.kin joining us to talk about the

paganization of America. John Daniel Davidson, he's senior editor at the

Federalist and author of the new book, pagan America, the decline of

Christianity in the Dark Age to come.

John, welcome back.

Thanks for having me.

How does the survival of our system of government and more particularly our right depend on the continued influence of Christianity.

Yeah, one of the things that I argue at the beginning of the book is that America is and always

was intended to be a Christian nation. I know we have gotten out of the habit of

thinking of that way about our country over the past generation or two.

But historically, especially in the founding era, it was understood that a republic of society not just in which Christianity sort of informed public life, but in which most of the people were actually practicing Christians.

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