“Though even better-respected firms like Barna (of Frog In The Kettle fame) have long born the sad witness that other marital dysfunction such as divorce is virtually as common in the USA among people calling themselves Christian as among the unchurched.”
This is a fallacy. A have heard this falsehood repeated over and over again, and as we know-if a falsehood is stated often enough- people will accept it as fact.
There was a book recently published which addresses this fallacy. I’ll try to search for the title and author for you.
Leftists lie. Leftists ALWAYS lie.
If committed evangelicals are really showing it in their conduct, I’d love to hear that. Barna might be casting his net a bit wide, as he reports coming across a lot of nominal Christians who say they don’t believe in the deity of Jesus Christ or some other deeply foundational tenet of the church universal that cuts across all recognized branches and denominations.
Anyhow, what nominal Christians do at a particular time and place doesn’t change what’s right and what’s not.