An adjacent comment: in every society, there is always a tension between individual and community needs. Fundamentalist societies, in general, swing to the extreme versions of putting community first. That can be (and I think to some degree is the current time) in reaction to the anomie that is one result of extreme individualism. Habits of the Heart and Bowling Alone (very different books!) are useful for thinking about this.
> As for mainstream Christianity, Dreher says that “We have allowed our children to be catechized by the culture and have produced an anesthetizing religion suited for little more than being a chaplaincy to the liberal individualistic order.”
An adjacent comment: in every society, there is always a tension between individual and community needs. Fundamentalist societies, in general, swing to the extreme versions of putting community first. That can be (and I think to some degree is the current time) in reaction to the anomie that is one result of extreme individualism. Habits of the Heart and Bowling Alone (very different books!) are useful for thinking about this.
Fun to see Dreher witlessly paraphrasing Marx:
> As for mainstream Christianity, Dreher says that “We have allowed our children to be catechized by the culture and have produced an anesthetizing religion suited for little more than being a chaplaincy to the liberal individualistic order.”