"In dark days now past, when the avowal of 'heretical' beliefs involved suffering and loss, men thought deeply before they strayed from the beaten tracks of 'orthodoxy.'  They knew what it meant to 'gird up the loins of their mind.'  But slovenly-mindedness is a marked characteristic of religious thought in this shallow and silly age of ours.  The catch phrases of the fashionable pulpit or the popular press are accepted without any sort of mental struggle; and 'historic beliefs' are jettisoned without the slightest exercise of heart or conscience."

This was written by Sir Robert Anderson back in the 1880's.  Sadly, not much has changed, has it?