Sometimes I think the only reason
City Weekly runs nonlocal submissions like the April 8 letter America Unchurched is so the staff can warm their hands over the flame war they imagine will erupt on Facebook, but I ll bite.
Thomas Knapp spends the first half of his letter pointing out that church attendance is declining. Then comes this: As a libertarian, I m inclined to see the hoary hand of the state behind all bad things, and I can make a case for that here. See the trick there? With this sentence the writer simply takes it as a given that the decline in church attendance is in fact a bad thing. Yet, he offers no evidence or perspective to justify such a conclusion.