The Reasonableness of Christianity Blog

I am enjoying writing in this blog. It is satisfying, even if no one reads it yet. But it is slow, and I haven't even touched on some of the themes I hope will become central to my purpose in writing this blog. I haven't even written anything to explain the title of the blog. But since no one reads this blog anyway, I don't think anyone is complaining.😂 Instead I spent a lot of time on two topics that I think will be themes in my writings here - history, and the idea of Christianity under siege by cultural and institutional forces. I spent some time trying to understand for myself why the study and teaching of history is so different today from what what it was in the mid-1900s - more specifically, why certain pro-Christian and pro-Western approaches to history have been banished to obscurity in academia. (see here and here ) I called this the "History Coup." That term seems quaint now that I have some understanding of the broad and cataclysmic sweep of the soc

Three great points in a blog post at  Scholars Stage . (Hat tip  Arnold Kling ) 1. How long does it take to enact a cultural change?  (Think overthrowing Christianity and replacing it with a new philosophy or civic religion.) From the post: Instilling new ideas and overthrowing existing orthodoxies takes time—usually two to three generations of time. It is a 35-50 year process. That just about fits the timescale we see for Critical Theory in higher education to go from neo-Marxist innovation in the mid 1930s to dominant by the end of the 1960s (as I discussed previously). Once education was won, it took another 40 or 45 years for Critical Theory and ideas derived from it (all with the overarching goal of overthrowing the Christian West from within) to become dominant more broadly in college-educated culture and institutions as it is today.  2. In what cadence does culture change occur? Scholars Stage references a quip from Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises as an analogy: “How did you go