The generational process of overthrowing Christianity
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