Crosswalk.com reports: “A prominent atheist writer argues that the United States needs to embrace more Christian values to get back on track but that the church is failing in its role of representing Jesus. Jonathan Rauch, a self-identified atheist and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says as much in a new book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy, in which he says the modern church is too secular, too fearful and lacking true faith.
Rauch summarized his arguments in a new interview with Matter of Opinion, a New York Times podcast.
‘What really needs to happen to get our country on a better track is for Christianity not to become more secular or more liberal, but to become more like itself, to become more truly Christian,’ Rauch said.
The ‘three fundamentals of Christianity,’ Rauch asserted, align well with ‘Madisonian liberalism.’ He defined those three fundamentals as 1) imitating Jesus, 2) not being afraid, and 3) forgiving one another…”
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