[lbo-talk] Religious (In)tolerance -- Chip? (Was Rationality of the Masses)

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 10:31:43 PDT 2005


On 6/10/05, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:>...as long as you have some religion or another it's OK

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. -- Michael Pugliese



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