Dr. Moore, you have said that you think Christianity is going to become more marginalized in this

country, which means that the Church's political power will diminish.

Christians who hold to a biblical sex ethic will increasingly be viewed as bigots or freaks

or out of touch with reality.

And this will lead to various responses and fears from faithful Christians who live under

the authority of Scripture.

In the second episode 3701, you gave some examples of things the Church can do to faithfully

engage or calling in a secularizing society.

But I think it's worth looking at the negative side of this as well.

As America secularizes, as the Church marginalizes, what are some wrong responses the Church will

be tempted to take?

Christianity is going to seem stranger and stranger in American society as American society

secularizes.

I think that's clear that's something that we're seeing right now in front of us.

And I think that could be bad for America in many ways because the Bible belt kept certain

things from happening that otherwise wouldn't have happened.

I think of the fact that there are many people who, for instance, in the 19th and mid, up

to the mid 20th century, didn't divorce because there would have been a social cost that

came along with divorcing and that external pressure kept that from happening.

This could be bad for America, but I think it's going to be good for the Church.

Because there's been this idea in American culture that a nominal cultural form of Christianity

is how you get to be a good person in this society.

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