This excerpt is taken from Colson’s breakpoint and interview with Mark Steyn, author of America Alone:The End of the World as We Know
“[Radical] Islam is a weak enemy, and its strength is determined by what it’s pushing against.” The problem is that Europe and, increasingly, America are putting up very little resistance. If Christians won’t stand up for our worldview, and secularists won’t stand up for anything, one day we may have no one but ourselves to blame for the triumph of radical Islam. The greatest offense against aggressive Islam is a strong, vibrant Christian faith, which, of course, comes right down to you and me.”
Steyn’s thesis is that Christianity is collapsing in Europe–and possibly sooner than later in America–because secularist Europe looks down on religion, offering its citizens “a robust confident Islamic identity or a tentative post-nationalist cringingly apologetic European identity.” How will we respond to this clarion call for robust, worldviewish Christianity?