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Helen Mirren appears to be the British equivalent of an American baby boomer who, like her American counterparts, was led astray by the ideology of the counterculture and the so-called sexual revolution. Despite having attended pre-Vatican II Catholic schools, the rival ideologies prevailed, not unlike the case with people like Hillary and Bill Clinton, Garrison Keillor, Warren Buffett, and a host of others.

Since the fruits of the counterculture in particular and secular humanism in general lead to scant reproduction, due to numerous factors such as self-centeredness and homosexuality, liberals can only increase their numbers through proselytization. The bad news is that evangelical Protestantism is doing a lousy job in retaining their children as they mature. Some may come back to their religious roots as they turn older, but many do not. On the evangelical side, the "seeker-sensitive" churches that skimp on the teaching of sound doctrine (Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Bill Hybels, and thousands of small scale imitators) are a major factor in this failure.