Feedback from April 15 and Beyond
Sometimes I think the only reason City Weekly runs nonlocal submissions like the April 8 letter "America Unchurched" is so the staff can warm their hands over the flame war they imagine will erupt on Facebook, but I'll bite. Thomas Knapp spends the first half of his letter pointing out that church attendance is declining. Then comes this: "As a libertarian, I'm inclined to see the hoary hand of the state behind all bad things, and I can make a case for that here." See the trick there? With this sentence the writer simply takes it as a given that the decline in church attendance is in fact a ...