Why "Moral Revival" Will Never Change the World

 It will not happen. Culture is too complex, and this sort of Christianity (and possibly even more socially-acceptable forms) is so far outside the mainsteam of power that nothing short of apocaylptic political, economic, and social events could possibly bring about the large-scale revival theocons hope for.

Of course, Christian conservatives have been divided on cultural change for a while now, and some of them have gone into power-hunger mode ("well, if elites have all the power, we'll just become the elites!"). See TeenPact, Patrick Henry College, Liberty University, etc. But these elites-in-training, or "scholar-warriors," as the chancellor of my alma mater once referred to them, eventually realize that to hold on to their fundamentals, they will have to remain on the outside where they have always been. Thus, the movement is no closer to getting access to the center than it ever was.
That reality is why, I think, many of us have deserted the culture wars as a failed experiment, and set about discovering what Christianity has to say to modern individuals, not people from a romanticized, nostalgic world that has all but disappeared. I believe there is room and even desperate need for meaningful faith in modern America. But the theocons will never succeed in converting modern Americans into pre-modern religionists, which when Flashing talks about rejecting consensus and holding to "exclusive claims," it sounds like they want to do. Their vision of a transformed America was and will always be a fantasy...
http://www.patrolmag.com/sessions/2157/why-moral-revival-will-never-change-the-world?