Ross Douthat Quotes

• America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

  Ross Douthat

  America, Littles, Too Much

  Ross Douthat (2013). “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Durante una discusión frustrante con un cardenal católico romano, Napoleon Bonaparte supuestamente estalló: "Eminencia, ¿no sabe que tengo el poder de destruir la Iglesia Católica?". Según la anécdota, el cardenal respondió con tristeza: "Majestad, nosotros, el clero católico, hemos hecho todo lo posible por destruir la Iglesia durante los últimos 1.800 años. No lo hemos conseguido, y usted tampoco lo hará".

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  Years, Catholic, Church

  "A Time for Contrition". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 2010.

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• La postura rígidamente proabortista del Partido Demócrata es una de las más inflexibles de la política estadounidense contemporánea.

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  Party, Choices, Unyielding

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• I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

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  Pensamiento, Ideas, Necesidades

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is true, to a certain extent, of secular liberalism as well.

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  Thinking, Way, Certain

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

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  Simple, Difficult Questions, Doubt

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• The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there. The sort of do-it-yourself, "create your own Jesus" kind of faith. But, the forms that faith takes do have a real reason they are so appealing.

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  Jesus, Real, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• No siempre está claro dónde un sano patriotismo se convierte en un peligroso nacionalismo.

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  Healthy, Shade, Dangerous

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

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  People, Christianity, Resilient

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Está claro que no hay ningún momento en la historia de Estados Unidos en el que todos los evangélicos se den la mano con todos los católicos y éstos con todos los metodistas, o lo que sea. Obviamente, el cristianismo estadounidense también estaba profundamente dividido en todo tipo de formas a mediados de siglo. Pero había una especie de convergencia. Aunque Reinhold Niebuhr, el gran teólogo protestante, no tenía una buena opinión de Billy Graham, Graham y él tenían mucho en común, tanto teológicamente como en sus actitudes hacia la religión en la vida pública.

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  Attitude, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why they have such a strong appeal and tease out the theology they actually represent.

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  Strong, People, Trying

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• Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing. This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that "bravely" trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.

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  Self, Political, Islam

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• What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.

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  People, May, Christianity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Los estadounidenses son un "pueblo casi elegido", con lo que se quiere sugerir que existen claros paralelismos, literales, teológicos y de todo tipo, entre la historia estadounidense y la historia de Israel en el Antiguo Testamento, y luego la historia más amplia de la Iglesia cristiana. Está bien reconocer los paralelismos. Está bien invocarlos. Pero hay que mantener ese "casi" delante del "elegidos". No se puede llegar hasta el final y decir: "América es Israel, América es la Iglesia". Ahí es donde creo que el patriotismo se convierte en lo que yo llamo la herejía del nacionalismo.

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  Christian, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

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  Commitment, Ideas, People

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• En muchos sentidos, el evangelicalismo estadounidense es hoy algo más fuerte que en, digamos, 1955, ciertamente más dominante e influyente en el conjunto de la cultura. Pero la mayor fuerza del evangelicalismo no ha aumentado lo suficientemente rápido como para compensar el colapso total del protestantismo tradicional y el debilitamiento bastante constante de mi propia Iglesia Católica Romana.

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  Catholic, Church, Stronger

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.

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  Christian, Running, Successful

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• I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy patriotism a little too far. For liberals the temptation is to say the purpose of politics is to straightforwardly bring the kingdom of God to Earth. For conservatives, I talk about Glenn Beck, the temptation is more apocalyptic and messianic, it's the temptation to say we did have a covenant with God, a literal covenant beginning with the Founding, and we are, like Israel in the Old Testament, falling away from it.

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  Fall, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that, in certain ways, American Protestants could stand to recover the denominationalism that they've left behind over the last 50 years. They are real values in having a confessional tradition that can sustain your faith over the long term.

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  Real, Años, Largos

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

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  Reading, Catholic

  "Ross Douthat’s Fantasy World". Interview with Mark Oppenheimer, www.motherjones.com. January 2010.

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• Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.

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  Religious, Atheist, Independent

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• Es una tontería ver el declive increíblemente pronunciado de la línea principal y el claro debilitamiento institucional del catolicismo en los años 60 y 70 y pretender que algo realmente grande no cambió entonces. Sí que cambió. Realmente hubo un declive institucional significativo.

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  Silly, Looks, Significant

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• I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

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  Thinking, Long, Generations

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

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  House, Church, Scandal

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Imagino que todos los escritores jóvenes tienen su primera revista intelectual, cuyos ensayos y artículos se devoran con mayor avidez por estar un poco por encima de la propia cabeza. La mía fue First Things.

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  Intellectual, Magazines, Firsts

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