For almost four hundred years, the King James Bible provided for England and America what Ryken, quoting a sociologist, calls “the mythology of a culture”: “the framework of beliefs, values, expressive symbols, and artistic motifs in terms of which individuals define their world, express their feelings, and make their judgments.”
That framework is no longer pervasive in America, much less England. Instead, recent decades have been marked by challenges to religious liberty in both nations, efforts that misconstrue the role of religion in the public square, and an increasing pluralism that makes it harder to achieve moral consensus on public policy.
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/22/morning-bell-religious-faith-is-still-good-news-for-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
That framework is no longer pervasive in America, much less England. Instead, recent decades have been marked by challenges to religious liberty in both nations, efforts that misconstrue the role of religion in the public square, and an increasing pluralism that makes it harder to achieve moral consensus on public policy.
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/22/morning-bell-religious-faith-is-still-good-news-for-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
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