Good Book

When not wasting time or studying for the LSAT I'm reading Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion.

I'm about halfway through at this point.

The author, Mr. Frank Schaeffer, is the son of Protestant theologian and author Francis Schaeffer. Frank converted to the Orthodox Christian Church. Dancing Alone is a combination of social critique and his reasons for converting.

The book centers of secular society. Mr. Schaeffer argues against it (secular society has bred statism and relativism, along with the other social ills we're forced to deal with like an increase in the number of unwed mothers, a degradation of the culture, etc.) and that Protestantism is mainly responsible for it in America (Protestantism, with its anti-authoritarian inclinations, is inherently relativistic).

It's a good book. I'll comment on it some more when I'm done. I've been a proponent of some sort of union between Church and state for a while now, and am interested to see how his arguments flesh out.