“Institutional religion in the United States – institutional Christianity in particular – is much, much weaker today than it was 40 years ago. But religion itself is as strong as ever. … But the eclipse of institutional faith, and the eclipse of what I would say was a kind of a Christian center that the country used to have, has created a landscape where religion divides us much more than it used to.”
– New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, discussing his new book in which he argues that religion in the United States has fallen into heresy.
