"As Anyone Can See"

It was a different time and a different context in which he wrote, but listen to Harry Emerson Fosdick, the leading light of the liberal assault on traditional Christianity in the early 20th century. He wrote the following critique of his own movement in "The Secret of Victorious Living" (1934). "...many of our modernist churches, as anyone can see, are spiritually dead and morally futile." Would it be too obvious to ask those in ABCUSA who reject the Bible's teaching to evaluate their churches in the light of HEF's observation? "As anyone can see," he said.