"The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references."

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The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there. The sort of do-it-yourself, "create your own Jesus" kind of faith. But, the forms that faith takes do have a real reason they are so appealing.

— Ross Douthat