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Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate, Report Finds "...the group that had the greatest net gain was the unaffiliated. More than 16 percent of American adults say they are not part of any organized faith, which makes the unaffiliated the country’s fourth largest 'religious group.' ... 'Those losing out are offering impersonal religion and those winning are offering a smaller scale: mega-churches succeed not because they are mega but because they have smaller ministries inside.'"
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Alan Wolfe on Bush, Sarkozy and Secularism “Once we start talking about generic religion, as Sarkozy is doing, or as even [President] Bush in this country does—religion in general—there's much less of a danger to liberal democratic values. Because it's a generic religion, it lacks the content of a specific religion. It's almost as if it's saying that it doesn't matter what religion you have as long as you're religious. In a funny way, if a president like Sarkozy says we need religion to undergird the social order, they're actually denigrating specific religions. Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette would be shocked at this idea of a general religion [laughs]. To them religion was Catholicism. Catholicism would support the monarchy and undergird the social order, not some generic mish-mash that lacks theological content.”
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Alan Wolfe and the Taming of Religion - by Adrian Walker Alan Wolfe frames the issue of Church and state as an either-or between 'liberal democratic values' and fundamentalism. But there is a Third Way, only it’s not yet another political system (dreamed up by who knows what utopian), but a (Catholic) Church. Link: http://www.godspy.com/opinion/alan-wolfe-and-the-taming-of-the-church/