How Can "Intellectual Christianity" Suvive

I don't necessarily recommend everyone read the long link. I read it to see if there was something, anything, that allowed a skeptic of religion, all religions, a place to land. 

In the typical style of academics, the author accurately describes where Christians are right now. Then he teases he will end with a powerful escape from Christianity's current problem of decline. 

His solution is that Christians will have to live in a secular society. They should not bend in all matters to the current culture, he says. But they need to realize they will have little or no impact on it. To me, is solution is the same as the Saturday Night grandmother in drag who concluded "Talk Amongst Yourselves."

The single most important issue in all of Christianity is SIN. All the pointy headed professors together pontificating on fine points in the faith have to face up to this truth. Today, one of the best examples ever was right there on the front page of Christian Post. A preacher said he would not back down from condemning evil. Sin is rampant and he named some evil sins. How can Christians co exist with a secular society when evil sins are all around?  Sins and those who commit them need to be removed. Forgiving sins was not part of this guy's schtick. 

On the web there are various columnists who present themselves in this way, "I'm not one of those Christian whackos. I'm a thinker, a reasonable person who wants only to bring disparate parties together for a fruitful dialogue." They run into a brick wall, however, when they start talking of an invisible being that is more powerful than any being that is visible.  

In the end, there is no difference between the fire and brimstone preacher and the self-styled intellectual Christian. Both believe there is some judgement of human behavior other than humans themselves.