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Thank you for your response.

Yes there are “bottom up” and “top down” influences on culture but from your own comments about Rick Warren you show that the “bottom up” might be more powerful. If he, as a leader being followed, needs to stay within the confines of what his followers will listen to...then he is responding to the culture that he helped create...this becomes a “catch 22”.

My point is that we already have the institutions in place to fight this culture war...they are called churches. The problem is that too many of them have decided to follow culture instead of God’s Word. If true Christians could transform their churches to teach all of the Gospel, we would see cultural transformation.

Yes, leaders can exert force to control some areas of culture on the surface but that tends to lead to revolt over time. It is also during the most top down times that the Christian church tends to grow the strongest...when it is being attacked.

I agree that more needs to be done, but the fight needs to be waged correctly. The fight really is not about conservative vs liberal but God vs evil. We could convince or by your idea of “top down” force people to accept conservative ideas but that does not solve the problem...people are still going to need to understand why this is better, where do these ideas come from, etc.

And the most important question...what happens to me when I die...where am I going?

We can talk about the culture war all we want but if in the end we don’t share the Gospel and the people live a conservative life but end up in hell...we accomplished nothing.

God bless