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Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

— Ross Douthat Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (2012)

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The triumph of a raw populism, embodied by a shameless demagogue, over both the official establishment and the official ideology of a major political party.

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

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Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

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