“When I spent some years living in Canada, I became friends with a renowned Canadian sociologist,” Sanders said. “He would always say—he wrote books on this—that ‘Americans always want to be number one. They always go for the gold. Canada shoots for bronze, settles for fourth, then talks about how well they represented themselves.’” Sanders shrugged. “Americans always think they deserve to win. And so, naturally, the Church has become about winning, too.”
