Based on our European travels, it’s already happened, there. It’s called education….

 In September the Pew Research Center modeled four potential futures for American religion, depending on different rates of conversion to and disaffiliation from the nation’s faiths. In three of the four projections, the Christian percentage of the U.S. population, which hovered around 90 percent in the 1970s and 1980s, drops below 50 percent within the next half-century. In two scenarios, the Christian share drops below 50 percent much sooner, sometime around 2040, and then keeps on falling.

When I see the Christian hypocrites supporting Dotard, the morally bankrupt conman, I say, it can’t happen soon enough.

Consider the peculiar phenomenon of Donald Trump, an apparent heathen who somehow managed to seize the leadership of the country’s more religious political party and then to be treated by some of its more zealous members as a kind of anointed king.

Trump’s ascent was a testament to the strength of key heresies — prosperity theology, self-help religion and a jingoistic Christian nationalism — within the religious right, and nothing he did, including a bloody insurrection, based on lies, shook their faith in him. The definition of gullible ignorant sheep.