Delray,
Seems to me that at least for the educated, those days ARE gone: it's just that the hierarchs don't yet know, or accept that.  Perhaps only subconsciously, but this may explain why their focus seems to be to shift away from the more educated North American and Western European church, and into S. American and African churches.  In their minds, this may be the right move, as those churches in the Southern Hemisphere seem more accepting of "Gospel Values."  But I think these guys may not (yet) realize that what people are rejecting North of the equator, is not gospel values, but the "ontologically superior" label, and all that has followed from that.  Stated differently, it's at least POSSIBLE that they can't even see what's happening: that the resistance is less about Christianity per se, and more a rejection of THEM, and their actions as church leaders, including what they've turned the church into, and how they've sculpted teachings and positions to protect themselves.