Signs That America Is Moving Away from Religion
attitudes are changing in a way that may blunt the impact of religion on
politics and culture.
people they’ve killed and vilifying gay soldiers, the GOP presidential
candidates have spent the primaries demonstrating how little they respect the
separation of church and state. Michele Bachmann seems to think God is
personally invested in her political career. Both she and Rick Perry have
ties to
Christian Dominionism, a theocratic philosophy that publicly calls for
Christian takeover of America’s political and civil institutions. (Even Ron
Paul, glorified by civil libertarians for his only two good policy stances –
opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and drug prohibition — sputtered
about churches when asked during a debate where he’d send a gravely ill man without
health insurance.)
GOP pandering to the Religious Right is just
one of those facts of American public life, like climate change denial and
Creationism in schools, that leave secular Americans lamenting the decline of
the country, and of reason and logic. Organized religion’s grasp on the politics
and culture of much of Europe has been waning
for decades – why can’t we do that here?
But there are signs that American attitudes
are changing in ways that may tame religion’s power over political life in the
future.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, tells AlterNet
that she thinks what happened in Europe is (slowly) happening here.
Read more here:- http://www.alternet.org/story/152558/5_signs_that_america_is_moving_away_from_religion
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