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The Religious Wrong 0

Writing at the Boston Review, Claude S. Fisher presents a strong case that the religious right is driving Americans away from organized religion. A snippet (the word “Nones” below refer to those who, when asked their religious affiliation on various surveys, answered “None”):

The specific, religiously-inflected politics that alienated more recently-born moderate and liberal Americans from the church were the politics of personal morality (rather than the politics of, for example, inequality or foreign policy). Thus, political polarization around the culture wars seems to have driven the rise of the Nones.

Fanaticism is never pretty. In the long run, those who promote a theocracy in the United States will suffer the same fate as England’s Roundheads, but much unpleasantness lays along the way.

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