Here's his main take from the article:
The 'old' heart of Christianity was lover & concern for other as lived by Jesus. The 'new' heart of Christianity is personal salvation and that required them to 're-make' Jesus into some else entirely.
Back in the late 1950s, some 52 percent of Americans were part of the so-called mainline denominations (e.g. Methodist, Lutherans, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, etc.) and about 33 percent were Catholics. Modern Christanity is instead dominated by megachurches, TV ministries, and right-wing evangelicals who are the MAGA core.
Mainline Protestantism surrenderd their version of Jesus to this new toxic form of Christianity without a fight & we see the same thing today with America: we are surrendering our version of America (as imperfect as it is) to MAGA without much of a fight.
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