Conrad Black: A Christian uprising is here to save the West
It has long been unfashionable in most of the Western world to discuss religion and particularly Christianity other than in an historical or sentimental or even somewhat condescending context.
But important trends are changing: in the United States religious practice which was in decline for some decades, after being steady for more than five years, is increasing.
The percentage of Americans who believe in the existence of some form of divine or at least supernatural intelligence has risen slightly to a formidable 86 per cent, while the numbers of regular religious practitioners, depending on definition, bottomed out at 44 per cent and have risen somewhat.
The genius of the American founders is revealed again in embracing the Enlightenment, but not its tendencies to atheism, thus arming the nascent American people with both the zeal of material progress and the conviction of divine favour.
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