Saturday, November 06, 2004
The Christian and Civic Religion
In the United States the largest and loudest body of support for two of our strongest forms of civic religion, the mentioning of God in our pledge and on our money, has come from Evangelical Christians. What a friend of mine was shocked to run into another Christian who did not support these two articles of ?faith,? she was shocked. But should she be?
Let me state up front that I personally have no problem with either item. Then again, I do not feel passionate about protecting either item, at least not in and of themselves. What I will attempt to do here in a short few paragraphs, is state the case for both why and why not these two ?God? items should be kept.
