The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.