[lifeisacarnival]

I'm not sure if I agree with this guy, or if he's just been swamped in bad media. . . The mainstream media has always sought the death of the Religious Right and Culture Wars, but somehow they continue.

[Dumb_Ox]

A lot of the reason for the "Decline" is simply that the media won't cover Christian conservative concerns in the way they'll cover liberal Christian, secularist, and liberal Jewish concerns.

But "the MSM is keeping us down" rhetoric is defeatist. If the gays, for instance, can take over the newsrooms and shout conservatives down, it's because their opponents were incompetent or lazy enough to let them.

So since their triumph is a sign of laziness or incompetence, conservatives need to conduct a PR audit. Maybe we should have been flattering news editors and cultivating "pet" journalists and Hollywood producers instead of merely complaining about them.

[GingisK]

Nope. It is, however, pretty clear that a change of tactics is in order.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"The resurgence of traditional Christian mores and culture that began in the late 1970s has ended."

It "began" 2000 years ago and it hasn't "ended" yet.
There has been an increase in secular humanism and some decadence and decline in certain religious organizations and communities. Part of this is media-driven.

[MinorityRepublican]

There's not really much we can do. Our culture is corrupted. With our divorce rate over 50% and out of wedlock births over 40%, the battle is lost before we even begun to fight it. Young people have no motivation to do the right thing.

Our culture in the '50s was fine because elders were respected and the place of man and woman in society is clear. Today the lines are blurred and that everyone looks out in their own selfish interest so......

[x]

The evangelical surge of the last thirty years has been called the "Fourth Great Awakening."

Scholars may differ on the count and the dates, but here's one version:

First Great Awakening (c. 1730–1755)
Second Great Awakening (c. 1790–1840)
Third Great Awakening (c. 1850–1900)
Fourth Great Awakening (c. 1960–1980).

I suspect they're wrong about the last.

So far as I can tell the evangelical awakening started in earnest in the Seventies and was going strong at the end of the millenium.

But all these awakenings have a beginning and an end.

They flame up and then burn out.

And then they start up again.