Private participation in US churches, as compared with almost any other country, appears to show that this obituary is a bit premature. What is gone is virtually any vestige of government acknowledgment of religious mores.
Even the British picture isn’t so dim as this bishop would paint it. He’s only looking at the Church of England. If he counted in Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians, etc. (in general, those churches that hold to an orthodox view of the bible) the numbers would be much higher.
I fail to see how anyone can look at the culture of America, and conclude anything but we are a post-Christian nation. If sincere Christians were anywhere close to 50%, there is no way the nation would be like it is today.
Agreed. Some years ago I attended a C.of E. Easter service with an old English friend in Worthing. Very few people in attendance, all elderly. That evening the same friend took me to a fundamentalist evangelical store-front church she regularly attended. It was crowded, all ages, enthusiastic and committed. Maybe a minority, but a “remnant” is alive.