"Yet Robertson fails to follow up the implications of what he has written about moral decline. If Americans are Christian -- in fact, if they are by dint of church membership more Christian than they were a hundred years ago, and vastly more Christian than they were in the eighteenth century -- then how do we explain the decline of religiously based morality?" Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore, The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), pp. 155-56.