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Guinness notes “a striking symptom of the church’s problems in the West”: in a country such as the United States, “Christians are…
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From Legal to Normal
Os Guinness, Renaissance
Guinness notes the sequence: first permitted, then widespread, then assumed. “Legalization of any practice, and then its normalization through numbers, need not mean moral approval—but it does change the social atmosphere.” The church must learn to see the shift without either panic or passive acceptance.
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Useful for cultural analysis. What becomes legal often becomes, over time, unremarkable.
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