You just need to keep fighting.

In answering wordplay's recent post about the election my comment got so long it needed a post of its own.

wordplay: The thing about post-evangelism is that I'm really not sure it's the kind of thing that just dies off and goes away. I mean, if you've decided that your way is God's way and you have a unique and singular understanding of that, can you back off from that position? You're the historian; how do these periods end?

Two notes: I am, of course, not an historian yet, but just a first-year grad student displaying that "a little learning is a dangerous thing." Worry not; I plan in drinking deep in the Pierian spring, I just need a little more time to do it.

Second, much of what I'm talking about can be found in Mark Noll's America's God and Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy, both of which are excellent.


( Why Clio thinks there's hope )