I don’t think that the various modes of Christianity active among the Founders were the root of any problem. I do think a lot of cocky and deliberately ignorant people today are trying to appropriate their words and actions, without having the spiritual capacity to understand their theology. And in that, I see a problem, because they call their movement Christian and they “don’t understand Christianity in the least.”

I know students at Liberty University, and when I asked them how the same Baptist churches that were champions of the cause of liberty during the Revolution came to be associated later with such causes as dancing licenses, liquor possession, gun laws and miscegenation statutes, they smiled and said “Christians and libertarians don’t have much in common.” For their part, I’m going to have to take them at their word.

My mind is still open on other brands of Christianity (they don’t seem to put the 2+2 together about what having an “established religion” here would really mean), but I don’t really see that kind of “conservative” “Christianity” having any useful role in this republic. They are statists pure and simple, and, as such, just as much my enemy as any Communist. Not any more, mind you, just equally.