What better time than Holy Week to be reminded that church-going Christians are alive and well and Christianity is worth defending.  The current Newsweek cover story is yet another liberal example that the “devil’s in the details,” or should I say, “the distortion of the details?”

The article, “The End of Christian America,” highlights a small detail found “buried” in the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey.  Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham focused on the fact that the percentage of Americans claiming no religion has nearly doubled since 1990; more specifically, the percentage of unaffiliated has shifted from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast.  His expert goes on to say “the historic foundation of America’s religious culture was cracking.”

I don’t see that.  I look at the survey and see the percentage of Christians in America at 76 percent, that’s three out of every four people.  It shows changes in the number of worshipers in certain religions and shifts in areas of the country.  That’s because those people move and evolve, not because we’re seeing the end of Christian America.

The article does point out the fact that, “while the percentage of Christians may be shrinking, rumors of the death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated.”  This is quickly followed with a NEWSWEEK Poll which shows that fewer people now think of the United States as “Christian nation” than did so when George W. Bush was president.

Just because President Obama made history in his inaugural speech by acknowledging not only “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus” but non-believers as well, doesn’t mean believers are the 8-track tape of society. We are a nation of Christians whether the liberal media wants to admit it or not.

We are a nation with a Christian leader, aren’t we?  President Obama says he has become a man of faith.  In his “Call to Renewal Keynote Address” in June of 2006, he spoke of his father being an atheist, his mother growing up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion.  President Obama said “as a consequence, so did I.”

Obama says he later heard the spirit and “was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago one day and affirm my Christian faith.”

Of course he left that church last year amid controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric and his damning America from the pulpit.

As Fox News’ Bill Sammon has pointed out, President Obama has not attended church services on any of the 11 Sundays since he took office.   The director of the White House office on faith-based initiatives tells Sammon, the Obamas “will choose a church home at a time that is best for their family.”
I’m sure they will, and I’m sure any church will welcome them open arms.  Because that’s what Christians do.

The rock group REM sang about “Losing My Religion,” and in the end realized it was just a dream.  Wake up Christian-critics, you’re dreaming if you think Christianity is feasting on its last supper.