This article in Newsweek about "Jesus Land" is brilliant. You'd think the authors just made a shocking discovery. What discovery? That Americans are - by and large - Christians. Noooo.
And I love that the article kicks off with this gem:
Dec. 5 - Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll on beliefs about Jesus.
They've got a name for people who believe in the virgin birth...they're called Christians! Somebody should introduce the staff at Newsweek to such a creature. They really do exist.
This reminds me of something I heard the novelist Tom Wolfe say over the weekend. In reference to the recent election, he stated: "My friends here in New York have to come to the realization that this is a Christian nation - always has been and is today. The Northeast and the West coast are mere parentheses."
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