Is America Christian?

World Net Daily's article on Christianity says:

"With 80 percent of Americans describing themselves as Christians, 45 percent of the population attending church on any given weekend, tens of millions buying Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life" and believers making Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" one of the top-grossing movies of all time, America appears to be bursting its seams with vibrant Christianity.

There's just one problem.

Although Christians comprise the vast majority of the nation's citizens and voters, America is becoming increasingly un-Christian and even anti-Christian with every passing year – from its culture, to its laws, its public education system, its news media and most other major institutions. Whether the battlefield is abortion or "gay rights," public prayer or euthanasia, most of the fights are being won by the bad guys. Why?"

Exactly, WHY? Perhaps the problem is in the definition of Christian in the first paragraph? If watching a movie by a man who does not know what the Biblical Gospel is and reading Rick Warren's material defines a Christian nation, is it really that difficult to see why we are having problems?

Believe me when I say I welcome more movies by Mel Gibson. Rick Warren's books are not horrible, just extremely weak. Christianity should be defined Biblically, not culturally. When denominations can not define sin and question the sufficiency of Scripture, do we really wonder why America is not a Christian Nation?