I’m sure it would be convenient for atheists like Rauch if Christians simply disengaged their faith from politics, or, even more conveniently, concluded that, amazingly, Christianity actually requires exactly what modern left-liberalism proposes as the content of morality. But it is rather ironic to propose that American evangelicals are the ones leaving Christianity, when their understanding of Christianity and politics is, if anything, tame compared to all of Christian political theology throughout history.

Go ahead, ask your Catholic theologian friend about it.