OPTING OUT OF BELIEF : For unserious reasons.

Commonweal | May 19, 2000| | Copyright

You hear people say that it is difficult to be a believer in our society. Though there are many ways in which this is true, we should reexamine the idea. America is, after all, more religious than most nations. Here professed belief and church attendance are taken as an index, and dispiriting as life in the era of Clinton may be, it is easier to be a Christian now than it was under the Emperor Decius. That very ease may be part of the problem, but it is only a part of it. Unease--a profound unease--is also involved.

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