Mainline Decline in a Sentence

An aside on religion in contemporary society from David Lebedoff’s The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War : “The mainstream churches are losing members and often seem devoted to causes more worthy than holy.”

That sums it up well.

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