Interesting, but also biased towards certain aspects of Christianity in America...Totally ignored the continuity of Baptist church thought, the impact the Restoration movement, and some other very strong impulses in the American religious experience...The Evangelical movement didn't just pop up out of a vacuum. Article does hint at the tendency in America for churches that compromise with the core teachings of Christianity to become less and less important to those who really believe and more and more of a social club/service body with less and less impact on people and fewer and fewer members, to be replaced by churches where the belief is still taken seriously.
No doubt this is what happens when you don't have state sponsored churches...but it doesn't take away the fact that America is a country where even if it's not technically Christian by law, it is Christian in culture in many ways, which is causing the conflict with the atheists trying to establish Atheism as the offical doctrine of the public sector...Christianity does very well, normally, under persecution...the more they persecute us, the more committed a lot of us get!
I agree... The Evangelical movement didn't come in a vacuum...