Well, it’s official. Mike Huckabee announced that he is running for president, against the backdrop of “defending the family,” and “protecting Christianity.” According to the Huckster, Christians in America are in danger like never before. In fact, before long, it will be illegal to even go to church.
I think it’s fair to say that Christian convictions are under attack as never before. Not just in our lifetime, but ever before in the history of this great nation. We are moving rapidly toward the criminalization of Christianity.The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) counts 26,344,933 members of mainline churches versus 39,930,869 members of evangelical Protestant churches. That’s mainstream Christian. That doesn’t even take into account Judaism, Mormonism, Buddhism, Muslim, non-mainstream churches like Seventh Day Adventist or Jehovah's Witness… In fact, PewResearch noted in 2014 that of the almost 320 million Americans, 78 percent of those align to some form of religious/spiritual philosophy.
This is bi-partisan. Democrats are as likely to be Christian as Republicans (though less likely to be fundamentalist). According to PewResearch, 51 percent of the LGBT community also align to some form of religious observance.
So the bottom line is: Christianity is not going away any time soon. There is no threat to Christianity, and no threat to Christians.