http://spot.colorado.edu/~chernus/Research/EFaithAndFear.htm
>...To anyone who remembers Eisenhower as president, that image may be
amusing at best. After all, as he prepared to assume the presidency,
he pronounced the words that made him famous to students of U.S.
religion: "Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in
a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
Historians of religion have often used these words to highlight the
unique quality of the 1950s religious revival, its so-called "faith in
faith." Some have criticized the words as the epitome of a shallow and
empty religiosity. Journalist William Lee Miller wrote at the time
that Eisenhower seemed to present religion as something effortless,
making no demands upon people and creating no complications in their
lives.
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Michael Pugliese