Ethicist Russell Moore has rejected the idea that society finds itself in a post-Christian state, explaining that there never was a “golden age” of faith.
“I do not believe that we’re living in a post-Christian society if you define Christian the way that the New Testament does. When people ask me that, I usually say we’re living in, at best, a pre-Christian society. I don’t think there’s a golden age in the past where there has ever been a nostalgic Christian society,” Moore said in a video posted by Crossway on Thursday.
Moore, who is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that culture has been falling apart not just recently, but since the time of Adam and Eve, as shown in Genesis in the Bible.
“Every generation since then has manifested fallenness and brokenness — just in different ways. There are different challenges in each generation, but they’re always there,” he argued.
He clarified that he believes that society is now in a “post-pretend-Christian” state.
“There was a previous era when people had a certain basic…
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