Typically, I find New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow to be among the most boring of the bunch. But I read this and wondered if the religiosity effect my not be one of the reasons the country is coming apart at the seams. Religious beliefs are often confused with grounds for U.S. policy making:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/opinion/04blow.html?ref=opinion
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Didn't even have to read his article to formulate an opinion. Yes, the U.S. is too religious. It's amazing how an institution that claims to develop the highest morals and virtues in people becomes the nucleus for rampant fanatical fear mongering and hatred when it becomes monetized and politicized. Me thinks ole George, Ben, and Thomas had our current state of affairs in mind when they separated church and state. I would even go one step further and say that it's not evangelical Christians or fundamentalist Muslims that America needs to worry about, but the new state religion of unbridled, blind patriotism to the sovereign powers in Washington and whatever the whims of society are (as dictated by the inhabitants of the ivory tower, politicians, and lobbyist) at any given point. Blind devotion to the homogeneous blob of people known as society is far more dangerous than any organized religion because it supercedes them and attaches itself to a potentially greater identifier, one's nationality.
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