What the Moral Majority is calling for … is a restoration of civil religion …

Ethics Bytes…blasts from the past: 

“What the Moral Majority is calling for, perhaps unknowingly, is a restoration of civil religion…which may be defined as the state’s use of religion for its own political ends..The establishment of morals derives from inner conviction and obedience rather than a mere outward conformity. Consequently, Falwell’s alternative to the current moral decadence of America is more consistent with the morality of civil religion than the morality of the Christian faith.”

—Wheaton theology professor, Robert Webber in his 1984 book, The Moral Majority: Right or Wrong?

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