Let me go two ways here:
1.) Individual believers often lack courage– and when so, it’s a lack of faith and/or (head and experiential) knowledge. Courage assumes there’s something to fear– and that’s fine; that’s life. So, what’s the response to fear: courage or cowardice? Key reasons for cowardice for Christians:
a.) lack of trust in God’s providence (Do I really believe? I generally live/do in line with what I really believe!);
b.) sins of omission tend to be subtle (People see and call out sins of commission much more often– their own and others.);
c.) lack of knowledge about what to do in any given circumstance (Related: Christians often quote Joshua 1:6,7,9 to “be strong and courageous”, but they don’t know and aggressively address what’s in 1:8!).
2.) Related but far deeper and wider: many self-styled “Christians” aren’t believers; they’re “belongers”. Religion has its sociological components– a way of belonging– and those tend to dominate when religion X is in the majority. Or we might say that they’re X culturally but not religiously. In our country, this manifests as “cafeteria Christians”– picking and choosing among Christian doctrines and practices, without meaningful biblically-Christian community– as a way of life, with (really) themselves as god.
So, we have been a “Christian” nation in this sociological sense (with a peak in the 1950s). But to your point, we have not been a Christian nation in the religious/biblical sense. What we’ve seen in the last few decades and esp. the last few years, is the falling away of the belongers from churches– and a significant increase in self-styling as “nones” rather than “Christian”. (Nobody is a “none” in a religious sense, but it’s easy to be “none” in the sociological sense.) This trend is generally good news– probably quite good news, since they’re less of a fraud and ironically, more likely to accept the Good News.
If you’ve read this far, you would like (love?) one of my essays on this latter point– on “Christianity” as “American Civil Religion”.
Source:
http://schansblog.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-christian-cowardice.html
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the devil loves the bible –god is love which very few people know what that word means–bible humpers,christians are agents of satan promoting the devils best work using the bible,not all but most are satans agents…————–>so i will tell you a story,pay attention fool…the day,very second shcanlong dies there is a couple from new york who also enter heaven at the same exact second as the bible humper–it is a black man drug addict with his white whore wife,also a drug addict –the couple has never prayed one word to god or ever read one word out of the bible–god is at the bar with some friends(no bible humpers!) and looks over–god gets up and walks over…the bible humper with their self righteous,pious chest out approaches god..god puts a big hand out and says “stay back fool”….god goes over to the couple and put loving arms around them and says “welcome home my children”…such it is but preach on you soulless bible humper,the devil loves you,your bullshit…jesus gave ALL salvation,even nasty,evil bible humpers get in,damn it….