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Faith and reason

Since religion is not going to go away, religious tolerance must itself be grounded in religion.

By Richard John Neuhaus
December 24, 2006

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CONTRARY TO OLDER theories predicting the unstoppable course of secularization, the world is becoming more religious and more religiously assertive. Western Europe may be the exception, even though that is much in dispute. Beyond dispute is the new prominence of religion and religiously-grounded morality in American public life. This is a surprise, and mainly an unpleasant surprise, to secularists who ... (Full article: 535 words)

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