These are more quotes from Made in America by Michael Horton. The 2nd chapter is titled "The "How-To" Gospel" and discusses the problem with pragmatic Christianity, which in my opinion is a slightly less noxious version of the prosperity gospel. "If we seek to justify Christianity on pragmatic grounds, ours will continue to be just another self-help, self-improvement program. Among the array of wonder drugs and guaranteed formulas, Christianity may continue to be stocked, but only as long as it is not replaced by something that works better. Temporal salvation, however, is not the goal of the gospel. The Bible doesn't offer us simple solutions to our political, financial, or physical ills." pg. 51 "[T]he seed of civil religion (that is, a religion that worked best for society) was planted. Pragmatism is only a further more systematic exploitation of vague Christianity. The eminent British research group, Oxford Analytica, predicts, "As...