And they didn t show all this gratuitous gore. There are people who get turned on by this stuff, and we are helping to build monsters. You say that Christianity succeeded in part because of its high moral standards. Today, however, many churches are lowering the bar to make religion more popular. They re death wishes.
People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don t value the cheapest ones the most.
Religions that ask nothing get nothing. If you re going to be a church, you d better offer religion on Sunday. If you re not, you d better build a golf course, because you re not going to get away with being a country club with no golf course. That s what happened to the Episcopalians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Unitarians and, indeed, to some sectors of Catholicism. The young clergy have religious motives that their elders didn t necessarily share.