The United States is Like Samaria

The United States retains a basic respect for religion though it may be following European trends: surveys show a steady rise in the “nones” (now one-third of those under the age of thirty), that is, those who claim no religion, a category now larger than all Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Lutherans combined. 

While pondering the poll results, I recalled an article Tim Stafford wrote for Christianity Today a few years back. Using parallels to biblical times, he said that Christians in the U.S. sometimes think we live in Babylon, as refugees stuck in a culture that…