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Still Bowling Alone

The Bulletin

CHAPTER

Is the Shine Wearing Off?

There is an imaginary sense of fighting a war that's giving to people this sense of meaning and community. That ultimately leads to real violence because what you start to assume is that everything that I believe, it's a threat to me if there are people who don't want those things. A friend of mine and I, he works on a lot of religious liberty cases. We were talking about religious freedom in this country. And I said one of the really alarming warning signs that I saw several years ago is when there were people who would say on some issue or the other, well yeah, religious liberty, but that's just playing defense. We need to play offense. It easily bleeds over

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