I am erratically reading After Christendom by Stanley Hauerwas as part of a paper on mosque/state separation in Islam. This quote jumped out at me:
The inability of Protestant churches in America to maintain any sense of authority over the lives of their members is one of the most compelling signs that freedom of religion has resulted in the corruption of Christians who now believe that they have the right religiously “to make up their own minds.” There is every sign that this is now also happening among Roman Catholics. As a result, neither Protestants nor Catholics have the capacity to stand as disciplined people capable of challenging the state.
