Alan Jacobs opines on Ross Douthat’s new book and its assumption that Christianity is a religion. I have not yet read Douthat’s book (only listened to Tyler Cowen’s Conversation about it). Having long questioned the usefulness of thinking of Christianity as a religion, I resonate with what Jacobs writes.
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