On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> And when, since the founding of the USA, has there been a bear market
> in piety?
As Barkely said, it is one of the ironies of American history that there was a brief, maybe two decades long break between the first and second great awakenings when secularism was unafraid to speak its name -- and that's when we fought the revolution and wrote the constitution.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com