D. G. Hart "... American believers vacillate between thinking they live in the greatest nation on God's green earth or have been sent to the Soviet Gulag."

HT Jim West whose post opens with a different pull-quote than Wenatchee has selected from the piece, which is:

http://eerdword.com/2015/08/05/been-there-done-that-d-g-hart-on-same-sex-marriage/
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Perhaps because of an overly realized eschatology — the kingdom of God is breaking out here and now — American believers vacillate between thinking they live in the greatest nation on God’s green earth or have been sent to the Soviet Gulag.