Does America Need A Reformation?

[Pope George Ringo II]

6. I would suggest that the Reformation/Counter-Reformation dynamic is not the best model here.

I'd point to a more American phenomenon, the "Great Awakening." Every so often, the United States just loses its damn mind and gets a fit of religious fervor. Eventually, people return to normal for a while, and then it happens again, usually a little less forcefully. I'm not really sure there's an antidote for it except time. And I worry that a nation struggling to adapt to a changing place in the world is more vulnerable to this sort of nonsense, so things might get worse before they get better.