There is simply no evidence that membership in new religions causes any kind of psychological damage. Well, that one we have to give a hesitatingly affirmative answer to. Not that new religions are purposefully setting out to destroy things. But the fact is, within one generation the number of religious groups operating within society has doubled and the nature of those religious groups is to make a quantum leap in religious thinking. The diversity that results is of necessity going to be threatening and destructive of structures from the past.
Social change changes things.
We have undergone an immense social change in the West in the past generation. No one particular religion is particularly responsible. Taken together, the kind of diversity that has been created by the rise of new evangelicalism, by the development of strong Muslim communities in the West, in and of itself creates a new situation for dialogue that we simply have to learn to live with. We have an interesting situation in this country where, since World War II, for the first time in this country s history, we have a Christian majority. The majority of Americans are professing Christians.