• Is Newsweek using Holy Week to bash Christianity?

Two articles in this Holy Week's edition of Newsweek made it seem as though Newsweek magazine was taking the opportunity to go out of its way to bash Christianity. The first, provocatively entitled The End of Christian America by Jon Meacham (http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583 ) was, of course, a good deal more nuanced than the title implied. The basis for the contention that Christian influence on American social and political life was a poll that demonstrated that self-identified Christians in America declined from 86% of the population in 1990 to 76% in 2009.