Toward a Christian Culture

The left has demonized the idea. They're wrong.

by Rod D. Martin
June 1, 2002

People have strong feelings about the idea of Christian culture. They have even stronger ones about Christian politics. Few of those feelings are good.

This is understandable, not least because the left is good at what we are not, specifically, selling their message. The far left comprises only a tiny percentage of America’s population; what’s more, they live in a country where large majorities are at least nominally Christian and functionally conservative. Yet the left has successfully sold the idea that the First Amendment – which protects the church from the state – means Christians are prohibited even from holding political opinions; and so well have leftists sold this obviously ludicrous position that it is taught even from conservative pulpits across America.

To hear Tom Brokaw – and some pastors – speak, you’d think religious people are inherently dangerous, and certainly more so than those who lack any moral code whatsoever.

Yet the doubts about Christ…