In his sermon titled 'A New Kind of Secularism,' Alexander Strauch discusses the increasingly hostile secular environment in America. He contrasts today's militant and angry secularism with the more passive version he grew up with, drawing parallels to a Babylon-like culture. This new form of secularism is characterized by its desire to marginalize and silence Christian voices, making it challenging for believers to practice their faith. Strauch emphasizes that this shift demands reflection on how Christians can navigate such an environment.

Well, I think we're in a very hostile environment ourselves today. In fact, that's the big picture of this whole account, that they are in a foreign land. It's a hostile land. And that's exactly what we're seeing in America today. Secularism is exploding.

But it's a different kind of secularism. It's not the secularism I grew up with, which was very passive, didn't bother us, we didn't bother them. But the new secularism is militant, it's angry, it wants to put us out of business. It's just a very hostile, like Babylon, type of culture. So the questions that are going to be asked will all revolve around this kind of environment, which makes living the Christian life much harder.