“… to understand the state of American religion, you need to understand why so many people love Dan Brown.”

There is a New York Times column that is a MUST READ for every Christian, and really every American. 

Here are my two favorite quotes:

It’s a message perfectly tailored for 21st-century America, where the most important religious trend is neither swelling unbelief nor rising fundamentalism, but the emergence of a generalized “religiousness” detached from the claims of any specific faith.”

AND

You can have Jesus or Dan Brown. But you can’t have both.”