The cultural wars that have caused great friction in American politics for the past two decades are in their own way a religious war. Religious wars have been fought throughout human history.
and a political religion may likewise incorporate civil religious forms. Thus, with the onset of the Cold War, American civil religion was expressed so as to exclude atheistic communists.
Fortunately, the Founders of America were on the same page. They believed in a God who not only creates us equal, but endows all of us with certain natural rights that must be protected by government.
Or, perhaps more aptly, no creed at all. "I think we have a crisis here," Rabbi Postanik said, in addressing the decline of religion in America, particularly among the younger generations.
Through a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Fr. Morello led a team of colleagues from universities in Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay, who interviewed more than 250 individuals in three Latin ...