Sublime

There will be a scarcity of saints but an abundance of martyrs. That is the way of our moment in time.

Marsiglio of Padua (1270-1342), on the contrary, inaugurated the new form of opposition to the Pope, in which the Emperor has mainly a role of decorative dignity.

Americans who make less money are more likely to dechurch than those who make more money.

Early Christianity was the original communism; it delegitimized and then tore down the Roman Empire. Then, many generations later, the Holy Roman Empire that consciously took the name of its distant predecessor turned Christianity into what Nietzsche called a “master” religion, one that fortified hierarchy rather than undermining it.

Churchgoing Is Losing Traction Percentage of all US adults

That’s the lowest rate of congregational membership since the 1930s, when Gallup first began collecting data.

It was in the aftermath of God’s death that the great collective horrors of Communism and Fascism sprang forth (as both Dostoevsky and Nietzsche predicted they would).